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The goal of Syllable is to create a reliable and easy-to-use open source operating system for the home and small office user. We also want to encourage developers to create an operating system that is intuitive, easy to use, and powerful.
Syllable is still being developed, but it is already stable and relatively mature, including the following features:
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syllable
The goal of Syllable is to create a reliable and easy-to-use open source operating system for the home and small office user. We also want to encourage developers to create an operating system that is intuitive, easy to use, and powerful.
Syllable is still being developed, but it is already stable and relatively mature, including the following features:
- Booting usually takes less than ten seconds
- A full GUI is built into the OS
- Support for a wide range of common hardware devices, including video, network, and sound cards, USB and SCSI
- Internet access through an Ethernet network
- A graphical web browser (ABrowse) and e-mail client (Whisper), and hundreds of other native applications (see Kamidake for a complete list)
- A journalled file system, modelled on the BeOS file system
- An application desktop
- 99% POSIX compliance
- GUI-based preferences tools for networking, display preferences, user administration, etc.
- An object-oriented programming API
- The entire source is available via the GPL
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