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Syllable 0.5.4 Released
AtheOSParrot writes "Version 0.5.4 of the Syllable operating system has been released. The lightweight, BeOS-alike is aimed squarely at finally realising the dream of bringing an easy-to-use, free software desktop to everyday users. 0.5.4 is a significant milestone in this direction with the integration of the new desktop, which is completely unimpeded by any legacy X-Windows foundations or toolkits beneath. This is no tin-pot bootloader with bitmaps snapped on; other features include SMP, networking, ATA/ATAPI, audio & video, 2D acceleration, GCC, USB & a 64-bit journaled FS with attributes. With desktop Linux still not having dented the 1% mark, will Syllable be the one to do to Windows what Firefox has done to IE? Also reported on OSNews.com, Golem.de and Linuxfr.org."
I was going to download and try this out until I saw the screenshots at their website http://syllable.org/screenshots.php
I figured, since the article stated it was a BE-OS look-a-like, that it would look like BE-OS.
Upon looking at the screenshots, however, you can clearly see it looks like a standard Linux distro.
Compare the difference between BEOS and this.
Syllable -- http://syllable.org/screenshots.php
BeOS -- http://www.verpixelt.de/blogpics/beos.png
The icons look nothing similar. The way the icons looked in BEOS was what made it cool to me. The icons were similar to the way Mac OS icons looked (before that OSX crap)
I liked the old pretty icons, before the whole "24 bit" 3d crap came out. I liked it when icons were hand-drawn 3d icons instead of done in Photoshop.
Having such hand-drawn icons in BEOS was what made BEOS so popular to me.
The only similarity this OS has to BEOS is the style of the windows. The similarities end there.
This is informative?
There is a reason why Harley recycles the "60 year old crap" decade after decade- because people like it and want it. People like the way Harleys look, sound, and feel, so they buy them. I'm sorry they don't meet your standard as super-l33t, high-tech, ultra-bleeding-edge whiz-bang engineering marvels.
This reminds me of those rice boys who drive Honda economy cars, talking shit about those crappy "domestics" and how their ultra-superior DOHC sequential injected 55 MPG piece of cheap Japanese aluminum makes SO much more HP per liter and is SO more efficient, and then proceed to get their doors blown off at the next red light by a beat up, primered Nova, ugly and inefficient, and powered by an "ancient" '72 Chevy 350 truck motor (pushrods- EWW!!!!).