Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Jul 2002 05:32 UTC
The Syllable team makes strides these days on their AtheOS fork, and most of the AtheOS developers have joined Vanders and Rick to their quest of a better operating system. OSNews reader Daryl Dudey joined the Syllable team recently, and he already wrote a nice networking preference panel for Syllable. The team is still looking for a kernel developer though, or C++ developers who like writting low level system software. On a related hobby-OS note, SkyOS made its first steps into the SMP world.
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Syllable is intended to be a good, Free, usable desktop operating system. I'm sure you've heard all of the comments about Linux "never is no good on the desktop"? Well, I'm with them! I want Syllable to fill the desktop space in a way that Linux currently fails to do. Because we're aiming for a well defined target, we can concentrate on the things that are important to desktop users, and hopefully that will help us to focus on doing things the Right Way.
We are not trying to clone BeOS. There are four or five different projects out there already which are all trying to do that, and I see no reason why we should tie ourselves down to somebody elses design. Curently Cosmoe and Syllable share enough common code that patchs from one could apply to the other with a little work, but thats simply not going to last. I should imagine that within two or three releases of Syllable we will have extended the API's enough from the original AtheOS API's that Cosmoe and Syllable will no longer even be realisticaly source compatible.
Essentially Syllable has two overiding rules:
1) Design it for the Users
2) Keep It Simple, Stupid!