The December issue of the Syllable Development Newsletter is now available, covering news and updates for the open source desktop OS. Highlights: 0.5.5 release, ABrowse updates, patches aplenty and more. Additionally, the SYL-CON user/coder meetup has been set for 19th and 20th of February in London – let them know if you’re going.
December Syllable Newsletter; SYL-CON date set
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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I’ve just released a test driver and package of Cdrtools 2.01 for Syllable, so now Syllable can burn CD’s with pretty much any ATAPI CD/DVD writer. Which is nice.
Awesome Vanders! Thats Great
Yes! sweet! my DVD burner was my only component that didn’t work perfectly with syllable.
Great to see Syllable making a steady progress, specially after Vanders speaking about what he wants Syllable to be doing before 2006!
I really enjoy reading this newsletter, it’s always filled with new exciting material and it deals with really important topics everytime, good job! Keep it up!
Just add some *new*, *nice* feature other oses don’t have, and you will get Syllable kicking asses in OS wars… really.
Sadly you also have to do the boring, mundane features all the other OS’s have before you can really get to the new, nice features. We’ll get there.
Are we not worthy of flaming anymore?
😉
I’ve a few ideas about some fancy things to add to Syllable…
Just imagine speech recognition and speech sinthetization integrated in the desktop environment…
Mouse gestures (like those in Opera) to navigate in the file system…
In the kernel… something very innovative in the scheduler, just to express the power of todays processors (power that isnt so expressed in WindowsXP for example). The use of Genetic algorithms (seen in some recent articles) for minor tweakings of the kernel.. What a great thing this would be!
User: “Syllable, burn me this CD.”
Syllable: “Unable to comply.”
U: “Why not?”
S: “CD burning is not in my algorithms database.”
U: “How come? You have artificial intelligence and speech. What’s so difficult about burning a CD?”
S: “It was not prioritized by my creator. However, I can optimize my kernel using the newest genetic algorithms tonight while you sleep, if you want.”
U: “Why would I want that? Yesterday, I had you optimize yourself for Athlon XP, and I don’t notice any difference. You still respond immediately with irritating objections to everything I say.”
S: “You may not have noticed the difference, but if I optimize my kernel tonight, I will be able to do it 9.7 percent faster than yesterday night.”
U: “shutdown now”