http://www.osnews.com/story/13235/SkyOS_Updates Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 21:28:06 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?83665 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83665 Mad props go to vorte[x] for the VMware tools, to Darkness for the weather service, and to Lukas for Subnecto, VNC viewer, and some other various ports.

Nice work guys. SkyOS continues to improve steadily.

And btw: New website in the works. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mattst88) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83689 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83689 Mac OS X seems to be the theme he's following. Good luck. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Unbeliever) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83694 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83694 SkyOS is coming along fine as usual!

BTW for all the Polish readers. There will be an article on Dziennik Internautów about SkyOS very soon. Keep checking http://di.com.pl . The editors asked me to share a few thoughts, so expect it to be a good one. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tomasz Dominikowski) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83697 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83697 Eagerly awaiting SkyOS final. Coming along great! good job guys. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Smartpatrol) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83744 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83744 The rate at which SkyOS progresses is quite impressive. There are only a few developers on it, aren't there?

Either way, it's probably the most interesting new OS out there.

Personally, I will probably only try final, but not use it for more than a day. I'm waiting for a second iteration to put some more polish on it. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sappyvcv) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83750 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83750 Yeah,I just hope Beta 10 (when it comes) are more stable on my system than Beta 9. But it doesn't change the fact that it's really interesting.

And I like the approach so far, including porting applications until (if users want this) a native application has been written.

I'm not sure it's the most interesting OS but I'm definitely eager to see what the future will bring.

Why don't you a beta membership (or donate in another way - you'll get access to all betas, and the final version as well

Polish up? As in stability or applications available, functionality or this weird thing called eye candy? Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83753 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83753 Not as much as he used to, unfortunately. I actually liked the slightly older WindUI look better than what we have at the moment.

( And btw. I don't like round corners. We need a good ol' NextStep'ish theme to 'old' grumpy guys like me :p ) Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83793 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83793 Right on! ;D

/me pats his NeXT

I'd be lost without it. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83819 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83819 SkyOS looks like a pretty cool OS, but how do they expect to go the commercial route and succeed where companies like NeXT and BeOS have failed?

Given the number of OS choices today, I can't see SkyOS becoming anything more than a niche OS used by a few hard-core hobbiests. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SodaAnt) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83859 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83859 "Mac OS X seems to be the theme he's following"

I had a look at the screenshots and I don't see it as being designed after OS X. Besides the icons in a toolbar type widget at the bottom of the screen I'm really not seeing any special resemblance. If you see something I don't feel free to point it out.

I suppose the toolbar on the top does resemble the one from OS X to some slight degree. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Celerate) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83860 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83860 "Given the number of OS choices today, I can't see SkyOS becoming anything more than a niche OS used by a few hard-core hobbiests."

It's not about the number of choices, but how this OS compares to the other choices that will or will not get it users. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Celerate) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83890 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83890 SkyOS looks like a pretty cool OS, but how do they expect to go the commercial route and succeed where companies like NeXT and BeOS have failed?

There is one thing you might not have thought about here. Currently there is no official company behind SkyOS. No programmers that have to be paid, no investors that need to be kept happy, it's just Robert working in his spare time.
So while not selling many products at this stage of development, he is not going bankrupt from this fact. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkness) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83895 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83895 Look at the taskbar (or whatever it's called). It resembles The Dock to me. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Unbeliever) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83908 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83908 You mean the taskbar at the top or that "dock" application at the bottom?

This dock is a third party application named Subnecto. I don't think a dock implies MAC OS X style. Even windows had it since windows 98! It's called quick launch. Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkness) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?83919 http://www.osnews.com/thread?83919 I believe he is starting a business with this OS,weather it is public or not. He has a business relation manager and several people working on various parts of the os. If he pays them is none of our business.

Tim Roberts
bytelynx.blogspot.com Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bytelynx) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?84216 http://www.osnews.com/thread?84216 I was talking about this older look: http://www.skyos.org/images/gimp.png

Don't look at the GTK part - just look at the titel bar. I like that look more, though the min./max./close buttons are to much candy in my eyes. A bit more crystalized look would be much better.

But this is better: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/NeXTSTEP_desktop.jpg Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments