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]: The bad side of SkyOS (and this is true too).
by silicon on Wed 12th Jul 2006 11:22
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RE[2]: The bad side of SkyOS (and this is true too).
by silicon on Wed 12th Jul 2006 11:27
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As far as I see this factory thing is a kind of like portage on Gentoo or more correctly apt-source on Debian.
But the sources should be available in a more convinient form.
This is slightly off-topic but I think the SkyOS team doesn't give the open source apps their due in SkyOS. The majority of the usable apps are open source. SkyOS is really just the kernel and libraries.
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If I'm not mistaken, GregV isn't a member of the SkyOS development team and I have read somewhere that if you want the source of the Gpled apps included in SkyOS, you just have to ask to robert.
On a side note (this is speculation), if I correctly understand what "Factory" is, the sources for all ported applications should be included in the SkyOS system as "Factory" should allow you to build them.
(Robert, I think that you never explained what Factory really does, you know...:D)
On the other hand, with my very very very limited understanding of the legal GPL terms, I believe that you don't have to release the sources of GPL apps that you don't release publicly/that you use only internally...
And as the beta programm can be (arguably) considered as an in house use of the GPL software, the SkyOS shouldn't have legally to release the sources for the GPL apps before the first official SkyOS public release (but they said they would for anybody who would ask, which is nice of 'em).
Please notice that I'm no part of the SkyOS Team, so please, don't flame them...you are welcomed to bash me though
Cheers,
Lakedaemon