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Syllable 0.6.6

From the announcement:

I am very proud and very very happy to announce the release of Syllable
0.6.6 at long last!

This has been the longest, most difficult release we have ever overseen,
and I'd like to say a huge, massive thank you to Kaj and Anthony for
their help and support, to every single person who has contributed to
making this release happen, and of course to everyone in the community
to continuing to support Syllable even when things have been very quiet.

Announcement | Changelog | Download

Release Date: 
Fri, 2009-05-15

General Presentation

Syllable is a free and open source operating system for Pentium and compatible processors. Its purpose is to create an easy-to-use desktop operating system for the home and small office user. It was forked from the stagnant AtheOS in July 2002.

It has a native web browser (ABrowse which is WebKit-based), email client (Whisper), media player, IDE, and many more applications.

Features according to the official website include:
Native 64-bit journaled file system, the AtheOS File System (usually called AFS, which is not the same as the Andrew File System)
C++ oriented API
Object-oriented graphical desktop environment on a native GUI architecture
Mostly POSIX compliant
Software ports, including Emacs, Vim, Perl, Python, Apache and others.
GNU toolchain (GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make)
Pre-emptive multitasking with multithreading
Symmetric multiprocessing (multiple processor) support
Device drivers for most common hardware (video, sound, network chips)
File system drivers for FAT (read/write), NTFS (read) and ext2 (read)
REBOL as system scripting language

Syllable Server 0.3

Sat, 2008-09-13 09:00

The third release of Syllable Server has been published.

This is an important release, because it is the first one that focused on making the system actually usable as a server. A number of popular servers were added and configured, and also several innovative REBOL software stacks.
Out of the imaginary box, Syllable Server is now ready for such things as accepting remote SSH log-ins over the network, running a web server on the Cheyenne REBOL server, running an FTP server and several more. Special attention has been paid to programmability, with support for developing Model-View-Controller web applications in QuarterMaster and networking applications with the REBOL/Services Service Oriented Architecture. The Genode Nitpicker windowing system is also included.
Read the rest in the full changelog.

An extensive manual was also written, which is easy to follow.

As usual, both a BitTorrent download (preferred) and a regular download are available (80 MB 7-Zip archive). Please use the torrent if you can.

Author: CoolGoose
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