Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Jul 2006 17:15 UTC, submitted by Lakedaemon
A set of major changes in SkyOS is now complete. The entire GUI subsystem was rewritten to support desktop composing including flicker free drawing, double buffering, full alpha transparency, plugable composing effects, etc. Secondly, PE support has been dropped completely, and all libraries, applications, drivers, and the kernel are now ELF binaries. Thirdly, everything is now compiled with GCC 4.1.1 and the latest binutils. And last, but personally definitely not least: SkyOS now has support for BeOS people files. Other than the above, a lot of bugs were fixed as well.
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RE[2]: I more and more like SkyOS
by kaiwai on Wed 12th Jul 2006 05:23
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Maybe once SkyOS gets critical mass, Robert might opensource it; right now, the only way to make money, given the very small user base, is to keep it closed source; I'm sure once there are 100,000 users, and 10% of them paying $10 per release, he'll cover his costs, but until such a day occurs, I don't see it being opensource.
As for Roberts contribution; as far as I see it, he is giving back in terms of the port to SkyOS of the compiler, the changes and bug fixes he probably needed to make etc. Giving back to the community isn't always adding new features.
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I used to be a big fan of this OS around the time they had the "UI Redesign" contest a few years ago.
Since then, they've had years of paid betas and not much else. Everything exciting about this project has been pretty much squandered. I mean, not to take anything from Robert, he's a hell of a programmer, but Sky is no longer an OS i would consider using.
And what makes it worse is the increased reliance on GPL tools. At first, Sky had a lot of critism for using GPL software, and many accused Robert of violating the GPL as the only explanation for the quick development of the system. At the time, i thought those people were being ridiculous, but now its become crystal clear how indebt Sky is to Free software even if it is not a GPL violation. And there's nothing Free (in any sense of the word) about SkyOS.
As a hobby project, Sky is still notable, but Gnu/Linux is really where the action is.