Kristian Van Der Vliet ported libusb to Syllable, which gives applications direct access to USB devices. Libusb will allow Syllable to support devices such as scanners, digital cameras and digital audio players. The SANE scanner package has already been ported. Kernel support for libusb has already been checked into CVS and Builder packages for libusb, SANE and libgphoto2 will follow shortly. Also, there are new ports of Bochs (screenshot) and DOSBox (screenshot). More screenshots here.
It’s really great to see such an “underdog” as Syllable making large improvements on the support and application areas, the areas that matters to a user.
Congratulations Vanders and fellows!
Syllable is looking promising enough that I know I’ll end up trying it out as soon as I have time.
With this in place, maybe we can now start work on building some nice Photography programs for Syllable!
Big fat KUDOS.
Had a look on there site….
found an interesting tidbit in a forum post:
Factoid: “Syllable – Increasing year-over-year development activity” from
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/251/factoids/200681
From such a small development team they must had decided to give up sleep
These days we try to work smarter, not harder. Looks like it’s working!
Am I the only one getting Vanders, Vasper & Varner mixed up?
Well, keep up the good work all three of you, I’m looking forward to a 1.0 of Syllable and Haiku.