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A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos

Posted by timothy on from the why-isn't-monosyllabic? dept.

angry tapir writes "I recently had a chance to interview Kaj de Vos, the lead developer of Syllable: An open source desktop operating system that's not based on Linux nor one of the BSDs. There's a write-up of the interview here, which includes some background on the project. I have also posted the full Q&A, which is very long but definitely worth a read."

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  1. Re:Why assembly? by gnud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What? Syllable is in C and C++, with only a few pieces of assembly. I think you read the linked article about MenuetOS.

  2. To summarise the article. by LingNoi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're only going to read one page of this article then read page five.
    http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398892/developer_q_syllable_os/?pp=5

    To summarise the thing that makes this different from everyone else is that the parts of an actual application are split up unix style. For example instead of having two or more applications taking your photo and taking out the red eye, the desktop would have thus functionality written once and the applications will simply glue all these standard pieces together.

    My only criticism to this is that we already have this in the form of libraries. Perhaps what this guy is after is something more standardised and higher level then that but I don't see how that's not doable in linux.

  3. Re:NOT based on Linux? by khr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...OS/2 Warp ... but IBM screwed the pooch...

    No kidding... Not to mention their marketing department didn't quite get the Star Trek based code names they were using... Half their material for "warp" looked more like bad acid trip kind of warp than "warp speed". And I have a poster somewhere from IBM that says OS/2 will "obliterate your work". Really... I don't think they "got it" at all...