Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Dec 2007 21:11 UTC, submitted by Kaj de Vos
The Syllable project has published the source code for Syllable Server. The code to build Syllable is maintained in Builder, the build system. There is a main repository of build specifications and overlays for Syllable Desktop and Syllable Server. The code for Server is now completely published in the source repository. A package of Builder (11 MB) for Syllable Server has been released that corresponds to Syllable Server 0.2 with a few fixes. The procedure to build Syllable Server will be the subject of an article in a future Syllable Newsletter.
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I was under the impression that POSIX was mostly supported in Linux as well, around the 95-99% mark just like Syllable. I could be completely wrong about that though.
The main difference between Syllable Server and Linux will be that it uses it's own widget toolkit and doesn't use X for anything.
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It'll be interesting to see how Syllable Server differs from a standard Linux distro.
* Booting usually takes less than ten seconds
* A full GUI is built into the OS
* Support for a wide range of common hardware devices, including video, network, and sound cards from manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, 3Com, nVidia, and Creative (see Syllable Hardware for a complete list)
* Internet access through an Ethernet network (PPP and PPPoE are not fully supported yet, but are available in a test version)
* A graphical web browser (ABrowse), based on WebKit; an e-mail client (Whisper), and hundreds of other native applications
* A journalled file system, modelled on the BeOS file system
* An application launcher (like the Windows Start button)
* 99% POSIX compliance
* GUI-based preferences tools for networking, display preferences, user administration, etc.
* The entire source is available via the GPL and LGPL
* An object-oriented programming API
I guess everything is *different*. How large percent of POSIX is implemented in GNU/Linux? 50%?