OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19540/Syllable_Gets_GRUB_2_PHP_5 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:24:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Curious http://www.osnews.com/thread?307096 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307096 I'm eager to see where this OS ends up. It looks like it has descent support, though I've never tested it really to see what it's like. As far as from what I've read though it sounds like another BeOS type OS or something to that effect which is all good to me.

As for Grub...

...I've heard of that but don't think I use it, though I've heard the ones in the ground can taste good if prepped right. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Syphadias) Comments Good stuff http://www.osnews.com/thread?307129 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307129 Mainline GRUB support is good for everybody and PHP is cool, as it means that Syllable can now become a viable system for serving up low-traffic personal home pages. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments rewriting the OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?307130 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307130 I have to give these guys credit. It must be very time intensive and exhausting to have to rewrite everything. It would have to be a real labor of love. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: rewriting the OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?307131 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307131
I have to give these guys credit. It must be very time intensive and exhausting to have to rewrite everything. It would have to be a real labor of love.


You're right, it would be. Which is why we don't re-write everything!

A large part of the "middle" layers are pretty standard GNU stuff and other Open Source software such as CUPS which has been ported and integrated into Syllable. Most of the drivers are based on Linux, BSD and X.org sources.

We may be crazy, but we're not that crazy! Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vanders) Comments RE: Curious http://www.osnews.com/thread?307134 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307134
...I've heard of that but don't think I use it, though I've heard the ones in the ground can taste good if prepped right.


Fry 'em with some butter and they taste just like popcorn. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments RE[2]: rewriting the OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?307136 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307136
A large part of the "middle" layers are pretty standard GNU stuff


Thank you, I've been looking for a succinct description of that factor for a while now.

It's one of the reasons why I'm still cautiously-enthusiastic about Haiku's chances (and Syllable too, of course).

Ten-fiteen years ago, Be Inc. had to license quite a few technologies - AA-capable font rendering, the blade MP3 encoder, various commercial video codecs (Indeo, Cinepak), etc.

The barriers-to-entry are a lot lower for an alt. OS project today. Rather than paying millions of dollars to license various technologies (or paying more to re-implement them), developers of an alt. OS can just make use of existing open-source stuff like Freetype, FFmpeg, LAME, etc. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments I wish http://www.osnews.com/thread?307174 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307174 A BEOS emulating layer was written with Syllable (like Cygwin). Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments Desktop OS http://www.osnews.com/thread?307356 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307356 Syllable vs Haiku is the real competition ;) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tanner) Comments