Linked by Michael Saunders on Mon 2nd Aug 2004 18:21 UTC
Tired of endless Windows security problems? Intrigued by Linux's power but discouraged by its complexity? Tempted by Mac OS but not thrilled with the hardware cost? If so, you might want to investigate the growing bunch of hobbyist OSes -- Syllable, SkyOS, Haiku, MenuetOS, Visopsys, ReactOS and others. Syllable is perhaps the most promising of them all; it's a maturing open source desktop OS with an evolving kernel & device driver range, and is targeted at the home/small-office user.
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...Beos was a pleasure because of the window server's and kernel's low latencies, the system-wise "pervasive multithreading" and the low overhead of spawining threads ...
this allowed for a user side impression of responsiveness, even running 8 mpeg player windows at once, on a 600 mhz cpu..
the team will have to work hard if they want to fully recreate this kind of OS experience because it will imply creating and fine tuning another clean kernel (linux is hardly a solution imho) ... so the attempt is (imho) admirable ;-)