New SkyOS 5.0 Screenshots Released

Hexydes writes "After 3 months of waiting, the first round of screenshots showing off the new GUI for SkyOS 5.0 have been released. The three screenshots show various features of the new GUI, including the new WindUI theme, new Viewer window, and various window effects such as curves, shadows, and transparency. In addition to the new GUI, SkyOS 5.0 will have other additions, such as more support for hardware (just to name one, an ATI driver to go alongside the NVidia driver), speed and stability improvements, anti-aliased text, and Bochs support."

Comments

Shadows don't look right

[sakyamuni]

It looks like the shadow code needs some more work. Windows with rounded corners have that same square shadows as windows whose corners are not rounded.

Take one of the screenshots from the front page, for example. Look at the lower-right corner of the window with the clock, at the top of the screen. Doesn't look right.

Re:So what's the license on SkyOS, anyway?

[msuzio]

Wow. I can't believe the absolutely *ignorant* comments on those forums. And I do mean *ignorant*, because the assertions made don't make any sense to me from any bit of knowledge I have at my disposal.

"Look at what happened to Linux"
Umm... yeah. Linux is in a sad state indeed.

"There's lots of closed-source OS's out there, like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS!"
Well, duh. I think perhaps those are successful because they have large teams and large corporate forces behind them... how do you match those? Open-source is one way... one person doing development all by himself seems pretty well doomed to failure.

I don't know. Sounds like a bad horse to bet anything on. Looks pretty, I'd even use it if it were open-source (or at least not being accused of GPL violations). But I suspect this isn't going to go anywhere unless and until the project opens up in some fashion. Linus tinkered with Linux on his own for quite a while, but I doubt it would have gone anywhere if he had never GPL'ed it. He himself has often said it was the pivotal decision he made in the development...