Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Oct 2007 19:37 UTC, submitted by Kelly Rush
SkyOS has received a few updates. First, the new theme engine makes it possible to completely theme SkyOS, without having to write even a single line of code. Furthermore, with only minor changes, WindowBlinds and MS Visual Style (WindowsXP or Vista) themes can be converted to the SkyOS theme format. Additionally, the Viewer (file browsing application) has a new feature called 'NavigationView', which makes it possible to possible to navigate to your devices and manage files easier and faster.
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2005-08-07
Nice try at character assassination! Only you couldn't be more inaccurate if you tried...
Go ahead and look back through my posting record and see what I say are my concerns about SkyOS; you'll find I often compare SkyOS to the BeOS. There is a reason for that. I was among the last people to purchase BeOS in the store, three months later they were out of business.
I'd been using the BeOS PE and finding it very usable, I could have just installed from that, like so many others did but I wanted to be legal and I wanted to be able to play my collection of RM videos. I also wanted to support the company I'd read about in Neal Stephenson's essay...I wanted to see BeOS continue to grow and prosper.
Why would I want to go through that again?
The past has shown quite clearly what happens when an OS is closed and there is no money to continue development. Or its lead developer loses interest and quits. It is only thanks to the fact AtheOS was released under the GPL that Syllable was able to rise from its ashes. What will happen if/when Robert decides to quit SkyOS in favor of something else? Will there still be a SkyOS?
Why would I want to take that chance?
By the way calling the people who bought SkyOS "Szeleney Suckups", is like saying [...]
I think you're missing my point altogether there. Perhaps I should have called them Szeleney Brown-Nosers instead? Does that make my meaning more clear? I did not mean anything sexual in my remarks, I was referring to fanatic who moderate downward any post which does not praise SkyOS or adulate its creator. As you can see I was correct in thinking this would happen....
Not liking is one thing, defiling SkyOS user base is quite another.
Not liking my posts is one thing, moderating them down as if I were in violation of the board's posting policies is quite another. Also, as said above I was using "suckup" in ... look see dictionary.com, particularly definitions 10 and 20.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=suck+up&x=33&y=25
I did not "defile" SkyOS' user base. If you or any one else who bought the SkyOS betas were not moderating me down against OSNews.com policy, then you were not included in my statement. Do you have a guilty conscious?
--bornagainpenguin