“Arno Klenke has completed the first version of a new audio framework for Syllable. The new system is inspired by ALSA, which makes it more Object Oriented, streams oriented and more flexible. Parts of the stream handling have been ‘pushed up’ into user-space as part of the media server. The first version supports Intel ICH and Via VT82xx AC’97 chipsets and the new HD-Audio standard.”
No screenshots of this new audio framework thing?
Pretty difficult to take a screenshot of a framework. It’s like asking for a screenshot of the Linux kernel
*sheesh* it was a joke, bad one, I guess, it was an impulse posting
Not the best ever but a good one. I like that you didn’t add a “;-)”
About Syllable (or Atheos), the first time I read about it, I was expecting to replace my Linux with it once it would get some more drivers and applications. I liked the desktop approach of it. But the slow pace of its development (*) makes it look like a hobby OS (a nice one).
Is someone using Syllable on his main desktop? Or just using it as an end user at least a few hours a week?
(*)the project started only 3 years after Linux and hasn’t reached the status that Linux had 8 years ago (when I started using it).
Tom
“Is someone using Syllable on his main desktop? Or just using it as an end user at least a few hours a week?”
Syllable is the only OS on my desktop, and one of two OS’s on my laptop.
Some weeks, I use Syllable allmost all the time. If just I could get AltME and AbiWord, it would leave the netbank as the only thing left on Windows.
Some weeks, I use Syllable allmost all the time. If just I could get AltME and AbiWord, it would leave the netbank as the only thing left on Windows.
I need to find spare HDD to build my Syllable PC to continue development of drivers and other stuff
Unfortunatelly, currently I’m glued to Windows (Matlab, Xilinx ISE, Visual C#, …) 
Email me about the hard-drive and I’ll see what spares I have.
(*)the project started only 3 years after Linux and hasn’t reached the status that Linux had 8 years ago (when I started using it).
To be fair, while Atheos may have been started in 1994 it wasn’t released to the public until 2000 and it was still pretty much a solo project until Syllable forked off in 2002. By that point most open source developers with both the appropriate knowledge and interest to really drive Syllable forward were probably already involved in more established projects like Linux and the BSDs.
I tried thelive CD a few months back and it looks rather promising one thing I found sorely lacking was a ppp deamon of some kind,some of us out here in the 3rd world(appalachia) still have dialup,and a graphical installer such as BeOS or Mepis Linux has would be nice,so one could install from the live distro.I was already fairly impressed with the media support,still had a ways to go to replace BeOS as my media OS of choice,SkyOS also looked promising but they have to at least approach BeOS in usability before I plunk down cash to use it