Posted by
samzenpus
on from the growing-everyday dept.
Proph3t writes "The up and coming operating system, SkyOS has just announced the ports of Thunderbird and Firefox, both in their 1.0 stable versions. Moreover, they will be releasing a 30-page guide on how to port these two excellent Mozilla applications to alternative operating systems soon."
Re:Slashdotted in the mysterious future?
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Anonymous Coward
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The SkyOS fan club might want to look at Atheos. There, again, was an operating system developed by a single individual to furfill his vision. He then, for reasons unknown, dropped out of sight.
Thankfully, for Atheos users, he'd taken the precaution of GPL'ing the system. So Atheos users were able to support themselves, eventually making an official fork of the no-longer-maintained system, and continue development.
It's called Syllable. The SkyOS guys are well aware of Syllable and vice versa; they're almost in direct competition with each other at this stage.
Mirrored files
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GrAfFiT
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Unless you can spare a few mb ( > 5-10 mb ) on your device, its really difficult to get a browser with almost full feature functionality on a small footprint device. I am not sure how much Opera takes though.
I think mozilla/firefox allows you to use xlib or gtk when you compile. So, your device must support either one of them - Minimo is gtk based and can be used on a ipaq with GPE environment. A friend has been trying to get firefox running on a handheld based on ARM - takes a bit of time and space - but you get the best browser on your handheld. A bit of optimization in terms of what modules are compiled should help the reduce the size and increase the performance
Being a beta tester and all...
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Gacek
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I'm on the betatesters team and additionally I'm on the translators team at SkyOS.org which is working terribly slowly at the moment, we've underestimated the slashdot effect I'm afraid. Still we're happy with the publicity SkyOS gets. It's becoming a great alternative OS for the home desktop users. For $30 dollars you can be a betatester, you'll receive all the betas and the final product when it comes out. You can get it here http://www.skyos.org/getskyos.php (when the slashdot storm is over).
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I tried going to SkyOS to find out WTF it is, down already? Anyone else care to tell me why this OS is of any relevance?
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
A Firefox screenshot.
A Thunderbird screenshot.
And the about page of SkyOS.
Unless you can spare a few mb ( > 5-10 mb ) on your device, its really difficult to get a browser with almost full feature functionality on a small footprint device. I am not sure how much Opera takes though.
I think mozilla/firefox allows you to use xlib or gtk when you compile. So, your device must support either one of them - Minimo is gtk based and can be used on a ipaq with GPE environment. A friend has been trying to get firefox running on a handheld based on ARM - takes a bit of time and space - but you get the best browser on your handheld. A bit of optimization in terms of what modules are compiled should help the reduce the size and increase the performance
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I'm on the betatesters team and additionally I'm on the translators team at SkyOS.org which is working terribly slowly at the moment, we've underestimated the slashdot effect I'm afraid. Still we're happy with the publicity SkyOS gets. It's becoming a great alternative OS for the home desktop users. For $30 dollars you can be a betatester, you'll receive all the betas and the final product when it comes out. You can get it here http://www.skyos.org/getskyos.php (when the slashdot storm is over).