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OS family
  
Unix-like

Source model
  
Open source

Working state
  
Alpha

Syllable Desktop

Developer
  
Kristian Van Der Vliet, Kaj de Vos, Rick Caudill, Arno Klenke, Henrik Isaksson

Initial release
  
0.4.0 / July 2002; 14 years ago (2002-07)

Latest release
  
0.6.7 / April 12, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-04-12)

Syllable Desktop 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 abbreviated to AFS in this context; not to be confused with the Andrew File System which shares the same abbreviation)
  • C++ oriented API
  • Object-oriented graphical desktop environment on a native GUI architecture
  • Mostly POSIX compliant
  • Software ports, including Vim, Perl, Python, Apache, others.
  • GNU toolchain (GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make)
  • Preemptive 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

    • Another version of Syllable OS is the Syllable Server, which is based on Linux core.

    References

    Syllable Desktop Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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