Syllable 0.6.2 review
DownloadSyllable was born in July 2002 as a fork of the AtheOS operating system
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Syllable was born in July 2002 as a fork of the AtheOS operating system. Several AtheOS developers, concerned about the long-term development of AtheOS, created Syllable to ensure that development would continue.
Syllable's goal is to create a reliable and easy-to-use open source operating system for the home and small office user. We also want to encourage developers to create an operating system that is intuitive, easy to use, and powerful.
Here are some key features of "Syllable":
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 Azaka for a complete list)
Internet access through an Ethernet network (though PPP and PPPoE are not yet supported)
A graphical web browser (ABrowse) and e-mail client (Whisper), and hundreds of other native applications (see Kamidake for a complete list)
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
An object-oriented programming API
Syllable 0.6.2 keywords