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Re: [News] New Syllable Operating System Released

  • Subject: Re: [News] New Syllable Operating System Released
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:10:10 +0100
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Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Mareeba wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Syllable 0.6.2 released
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 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.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=246
>> 
>> 
>> I'm sure the 3 people that use it are delighted.
>
> Gee... I must be one of the three then. Fact is, Syllable is a very user
> friendly alternative all the current available OS's... As it progresses
> into the future, more and more applications will come online. 

And it will become more user unfriendly.


> Have you even looked at it?

I have.

The effort going into it better given to a mainstream Linux distro where
any effort at "user friendliness" will be appreciated.

As it, it's another fork, another dilution, another waste of everyone's
time & effort.

Its a fork of the abandoned AtHEOS and it will be dumped itself when the
amateur developers realise the time & effort to really get it up and
running.

More disturbing is this:

,----
| Why not use X-Windows and X's GUI toolkits?
| 
| The short answer: Because we don't want to ;)
| The long answer: The X Windowing system has various technical problems
| which Syllable seeks to avoid (you probably know what these are). Using
| X toolkits would be undesirable, as Syllable seeks to be a single,
| unified system, with its own toolkit.
| 
| 
| What filesystem does Syllable use?
| 
| Syllable uses the AFS filesystem (AtheOS FileSystem). This was also
| created by Kurt Skauen, as a part of the AtheOS system. It is somewhat
| similar to the BeOS filesystem. 
`----

So anyone advocating this here is in the wrong NG : as we're constantly
reminded, X is the pinnacle of distributed computing design ...... But
would you trust this filesystem with your mission critical data?

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