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 have tried both. While I really do like Syllable the development cycle is very slow. This isn't their fault, there arn't very many devs. It is really fast and reminds me of BeOS. SkyOS is much further along and has many strengths also. Honestly if both were usable right now and I actually had a choice it would be Syllable. But I think SkyOS is going to be the winner there. Higher profile, much, much farther along. If it really takes them 2-3 more years to get to Syllable 1.0 it will be like using Windows 3.1 by that time. Shame really. I hope that Mono can help bridge the software gap in the open source world. At least then we could all share the same apps but run them on whatever system suits us best.