Syllable Desktop (operating system)
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 Syllable 0.6.5 |
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| Company / developer | Kristian Van Der Vliet, Kaj de Vos, Rick Caudill, Arno Klenke, Henrik Isaksson |
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| OS family | Amiga OS-like Unix-like |
| Working state | Alpha |
| Source model | Free and open source software |
| Initial release | 0.4.0 / July 2002[1] |
| Latest stable release | 0.6.6 / 2009-05-15 |
| Supported platforms | IA-32 |
| Kernel type | Hybrid |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.syllable.org |
Syllable is a free and open source operating system for Pentium and compatible processors. Its purpose is to create an easy-to-use desktop operating system for the home and small office user. It was forked from the stagnant AtheOS in July 2002.
It has a native web browser (Webster which is WebKit-based), email client (Whisper), media player, IDE, and many more applications.
Features according to the official website include:
- Native 64-bit journaled file system, the AtheOS File System (usually called AFS, which is not the same as the Andrew File System)
- C++ oriented API
- Object-oriented graphical desktop environment on a native GUI architecture
- Mostly POSIX compliant
- Software ports, including Emacs, Vim, Perl, Python, Apache and others.
- GNU toolchain (GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make)
- Pre-emptive multitasking with multithreading
- Symmetric multiprocessing (multiple processor) support
- Device drivers for most common hardware (video, sound, network chips)
- File system drivers for FAT (read/write), NTFS (read) and ext2 (read)
- REBOL as system scripting language
The latest version is 0.6.6, released on May 15, 2009.
[edit] See also
- Haiku (free and open source)
- KolibriOS (free and open source)
- MenuetOS (the 32-bit version is free and open source, the 64-bit version is freeware)
- ReactOS (free and open source)
- SkyOS (proprietary and closed source)
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- Syllable OS homepage
- Introduction to Syllable’s features, and the 0.5.3 release
- Review on Linux.com
- Syllable Server on DistroWatch.
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