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[Syllable] The free desktop and server operating system family

Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[827]
it is for those who like to look at new stuff ...
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[828]
what is the unique selling proposition?
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[829x2]
Yes, and basic browsing and email, listening music, watching video
What is your Unique Need? :-)
Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[831]
Kaj - Graham is trying to find out, how it differs from "yet another 
OS out there" ....
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[832]
USP = boots in 10 seconds...
Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[833]
the same goes for languages, frameworks, we still can see new stuff 
....
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[834]
but can't do much yet ...
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[835]
Many, many things. Some people care about one, others about another
Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[836]
USP - boots in 3 sec woudl be better :-)
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[837]
What would you buy if you choose between Linux, 90 seconds, Vista, 
60 seconds, Syllable, 6 seconds?
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[838]
DOS 2 seconds
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[839x2]
If Linux would have had our functionality in the first decade or 
so, people would have been delighted with what you can do with it
So you still buy DOS these days? That's what I mean: different strokes 
for different folks :-)
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[841]
for me, I need a scriptable browser
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[842]
The reason that I'm always reluctant to answer this question is that 
everyone wants to hear something else
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[843x3]
eg. chickenfoot in Firefox
printing .. eg ghostscript
and Rebol of course
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[846x2]
Events for our events system are being added to our browser. Never 
had that question yet :-)
Ghostscript: check
Rebolek
15-Jun-2007
[848]
I want to hear that Syllable support low-latency audio ;)
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[849x2]
REBOL: in the works
ORCA: check
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[851]
what is the state of orca?  still in development?
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[852x2]
Lower latency than Linux: check (not perfect yet)
We have a new audio framework in userspace, but our scheduler still 
needs to be improved
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[854]
postgresql or mysql also pretty much required
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[855x2]
ORCA is dormant, but in use, so development will wake up again one 
day
No bigger databases yet. Someone tried PostreSQL and we ran into 
a porting snag for the moment being
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[857x2]
Anyone porting Firefox?
the thing is ... the browser is becoming the dominant platform now
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[859x2]
Been tried, but too difficult for the moment being. It's humongous
We need to do this step by step
Rebolek
15-Jun-2007
[861]
Kaj that's great to hear about audio. I'm going to check Syllable 
again once my new GFX card arives (it's not working my my old one).
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[862x2]
But we have an announcement in that direction, too :-)
Still not working with your card?
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[864]
is the Syllable LivePC being updated?
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[865]
What was it, again?
Rebolek
15-Jun-2007
[866x2]
it was matrox millenium 2mb, I'm probably the last one still using 
it ;)
but I should have a new one next week
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[868]
The LivePC, forgot about that one already. It's contributed, so I 
guess not. We are releasing a VMWare image ourselves, now, though
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[869]
Is javascript fully supported in the browser?
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[870x3]
As far as I know, yes
But, announcement next week :-)
(There are always snags with parts of browser functionality)
Graham
15-Jun-2007
[873x2]
no antivirus software?
clam AV?
Kaj
15-Jun-2007
[875]
We don't have viruses :-)
Pekr
15-Jun-2007
[876]
KHTML browser should be easier to port.