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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i'm missing innovation... if you want do a OS like many others, thats a goal, but not very useful. (if you have fun, who cares).
it's less bloated => it doesn'T have all the features other OS have.
It's skinnable => Most useless feature I can think off.
Has it's own GUI API => if there are no cross-platform GUI toolkits, it's only another hobby os nobody needs. port wxwidgets and gtk+ to syllable. If you don't have a HIG, don't talk about native GUI API. behaviour is much more important than look.
if you really want to convince developers to use the native API, develop bindings for python and other languages.
port Mono to Syllable.
you need a good software installation system. this sucks with linux AND with windows.