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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Development is slow but it isn't that slow! Between the last release of Syllable and the next release the entire desktop will have been rewritten from scratch, a whole new bunch of GUI classes will have been added, applications will be translated, new drivers ported and bugs fixed. It's been two months since the last release so far; I don't believe that is a long time at all!
I don't know where the meme that SkyOS is "much farther along" has come from. SkyOS has more applications, Syllable has more drivers, but apart from that they're almost neck and neck. The majority of features are present in both. Syllable has some functionality not yet in SkyOS. SkyOS has some functionality not present in Syllable.
Now I'm tired of comparing Syllable to SkyOS, especially when we're not basing our arguments on solid facts. I'd much rather talk about what Syllable does and does not, can and can not, will and will not do.