Linked by Daniel W. Steinbrook on Thu 7th Sep 2006 06:14 UTC
Syllable 0.6.1 is the latest incarnation of the operating system that "will be a reliable and easy-to-use GPLed operating system for the home and small office user" as their website states. That's quite a noble cause most other alternative operating systems never claim to be able to market to non-technical audience one day. Even getting Syllable up and running is pretty easy: fully-working VMWare images and a LiveCD images are provided for free download. Apparently, Danes are the primary downloader of the Syllable LiveCD, given the primary language in which the LiveCD page is by default. 
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Is it only me or did the article have a couple of broken UTF-8 characters? For example, on the first page it reads
"like Windows and X can [junk] and even if it can't"
The junk that appears at least on my screen is "a" with a hat (caret), the euro sign, and an ASCII quotation mark. I guess it's supposed to be an emdash or endash. The page, on the other hand, claims to be in ISO-8859-1 (the meta tag in the page source). At other points, quotation marks are missing, but that could also be a typo, not related to this.
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.5 on Linux, and it correctly and automatically sets the encoding to ISO-8859-1.