
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.
I tried at one point to get ABrowse to compile (from the source tar ball on atheos.cx) but configure errored out. I tried feeding different opions and same result each time. As Vanders said, we need a full time maintainer of ABrowse, or someone to port a different browser engine. As Jon said, the source is just wrappers to KHTML, and the entire source for the browser (not counting the KHTML wrappers, and KHTML) resides in just 1 file and would be easy to improve, once someone can get a compile.