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:
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| 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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