Syllable, AtheOS Archive

Syllable Gets a New Installer

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-25 Syllable, AtheOS 9 Comments

Syllable gets a beta of a brand new installer and an ISO is up for testing. Update: A VMWare driver too.

Syllable Gets GCC 3.3.3 and Binutils 2.14

Submitted by Pablo M 2004-03-24 Syllable, AtheOS 34 Comments

The Syllable Team is pleased to announce that Gcc 3.3.3 and Binutils 2.14 are now available for download in Syllable. A new Glibc version is also under way.

Syllable: New ATA & ATi drivers, New IDE

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-19 Syllable, AtheOS 20 Comments

Michael Krueger has written an ATi Radeon driver, based on the Linux 2.6 framebuffer driver. It should support all chips up to 9800/Pro/XT and features native mode setting, 2D acceleration, hardware cursor and YUV422 video overlay support. Arno Klenke has released a beta version of his new ATA disk driver. With support for 48bit LBA drives, chipset support for Intel, Via, SiS, AMD and nVidia chipsets, better performance throughout and a multi-threaded design Syllable gains a significant speed boost. In the meantime, Rick Caudill codes Sourcery, a source code editor for Syllable (screenshot).

Syllable 0.5.2 Released

Kevin05 2004-01-03 Syllable, AtheOS 26 Comments

Syllable 0.5.2 has been released and is now available for download. Some of the changes include new graphics card drivers for the nVidia GeForceFX and the Savage IX/MX chipsets. The media framework has also been updated, so now Syllable works with multiple soundcards. A full list of changes can be found on the Syllable website.

Syllable 0.5.1 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-10 Syllable, AtheOS 21 Comments

Syllable 0.5.1 is now available. Syllable 0.5.1 fixes some of the bugs users encountered in Syllable 0.5.0, and also adds yet more functionality with an experimental USB Mass Storage driver and Ogg Vorbis audio plugin. Read on for the upgrade details.

Syllable 0.5.0 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-05 Syllable, AtheOS 12 Comments

The first release of the Syllable 0.5 development series has been released. The Changelog lists a huge number of changes, notably the inclusion of the new Media Framework, USB support and yet more new drivers. If you are upgrading from Syllable 0.4.5, then you must ensure that you read the upgrade notes.

Syllable gets USB Support; SkyOS, ReactOS, OpenBeOS Updates

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-20 Syllable, AtheOS 44 Comments

Arno Klenke has completed his work on the PCI and USB bus managers for Syllable. Not only does this simplify the internel managment of devices in Syllable, it also means USB UHCI support. The current implementation is a port of the Linux UHCI driver which has been re-written by Arno as a Syllable bus manager, and a native USB mouse driver. On other hobby OS news, SkyOS has some updates on SkyOS 5 while ReactOS can now run some simple Windows applications. IsComputerOn has an update on the OpenBeOS' bootloader too.

Syllable Media Framework integrated

Submitted by Rick Caudill 2003-08-24 Syllable, AtheOS 59 Comments

Arno Klenke has recently checked in the media framework to Syllable CVS. Functionality of this initial checkin is impressive, with video and audio playback in many common formats via the FFMpeg codec plugin, the ability to play multiple audio streams with stream mixing and video playback with video overlays or playback with a bitmap display on systems which do not support overlays. You can check out some screenshots of the Media Player and ColdFish in action.

Syllable 0.4.5 is Released

Submitted by Rick Caudill 2003-08-17 Syllable, AtheOS 30 Comments

Syllable 0.4.5 is out! You can see the changelog here. This release is the last of the Syllable 0.4 releases, and comes after over a year of development. Development will now begin on Syllable 0.5, which we hope will bring great improvements and increased stability to Syllable.

Syllable Developers Meeting and Roadmap

Submitted by Shawn 2003-07-13 Syllable, AtheOS 4 Comments

The 2nd Syllable developers' IRC meeting recently concluded, and the logs can be found here. Our first one can be read here with a summary here. According to Shawn, "We are throwing around ideas of what we'd like to see in Syllable 1.0."

Interview with Syllable Project Manager “Vanders”

Submitted by Dev Sibwarra 2003-07-04 Syllable, AtheOS 46 Comments

NeoNerds.net have snagged an interview with the project manager of the Syllable project, Kristian "Vanders" Van Der Vliet. In this interview, NeoNerds reveals the current status of the project, as well as the projected future of Syllable as a desktop and office OS.

Syllable 0.4.4 Review

Submitted by Thomas Weibel 2003-06-03 Syllable, AtheOS 22 Comments

Thomas Weibel wrote a Syllable 0.4.4 review with lots of screenshots and info.

Syllable 0.4.4 Released

Submitted by Greg Afinogenov 2003-06-01 Syllable, AtheOS 27 Comments

The newest version of the Syllable operating system (based on AtheOS) is now available. Changes include: ATA and ATAPI, improved SB Live! and Audigy support, ISO-9660 FS, and a bootable CD (as well as many updates/fixes). Read about it here.

Syllable 0.4.4 Announced for Next Week Release

Submitted by Anonymer Feigling 2003-05-25 Syllable, AtheOS 18 Comments

From Kristian Van Der Vliet, project leader of Syllable: "We are currently checking everything into CVS in preperation for Syllable 0.4.4, which is now scheduled to be released next weekend."

CD support for Syllable; SkyOS Gets Installer Updates

Submitted by Greg 2003-03-30 Syllable, AtheOS 15 Comments

A milestone for Syllable OS: "With a couple of patches from Arno Klenke, both the ATAPI driver and ISO9660 filesystem driver work together happily, and we are able to mount, read and unmount discs" project leader Vanders wrote. In the meantime, SkyOS gets some significant updates on its installer on other parts of the OS.

Syllable 0.4.3 is Released

Submitted by Shawn 2003-02-23 Syllable, AtheOS 23 Comments

Syllable 0.4.3 has been released. Check out the homepage or go straight to the files. Also check out Syllable Internet, the home for the native Syllable internet apps, including ABrowse a WWW browser based on KHTML which now has tab support.

Syllable Readies New UI

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-17 Syllable, AtheOS 46 Comments

Rick Caudill uploaded two screenshots (one, two) and he is seeking feedback on the new Syllable UI that is presented in them. Here is a glimpse of the older UI.

Cosmoe 0.6 Released

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2003-01-11 Syllable, AtheOS 11 Comments

Cosmoe 0.6 has been released. The have added new Be APIs and the APIs are more similar to the Be APIs. The built-in FreeType library has been removed, and new fonts have been added. 0.6 does not include the DirectFB-based rewrite of the appserver, that is expected to be added in release 0.7. Visit the Cosmoe website for more details.

Syllable’s Project Leader, Vanders, Shapes the Future

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-23 Syllable, AtheOS 27 Comments

"I have a vision of an application which provides me with an idea of the sort of features I would like Syllable to have. Its time I wrote it down so that you can all see where I'm going with Syllable. If I compare my fantasy application with the current abilities of Syllable, then it gives me a set of features which we still need to implement, so it sort of serves as a roadmap and a high level design all in one." Read the article at Syllable's web site.

Syllable 0.4.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-12 Syllable, AtheOS 21 Comments

On Syllable 0.4.2 there are new GUI classes, public message ports, kernel fixes, a new POSIX threads library, Daryl's new preference apps. For a full list of changes, look here, and you can download 0.4.2 here. Installation notes here. Now that Syllable 0.4.2 has fixed a bug which has previously caused Samba to fail, it means that Samba now compiles and runs. A basic precompiled binary can now be downloaded, which you can install and use once you've upgraded to 0.4.2.