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my question was more of a license problem category ... simply put, 
if you can bundle e.g. closed source app with your system?

I mean - binary one .... e.g. nVidia drivers, etc., or Rebol3 :-)

Eventually I would like to have a port of /View 3 and an Orca dialect 
for our native widgets

We can bundle closed-source apps, just like Linux and others can. 
We already do, with some games and demos that were released by their 
authors without source

However, we will never include non-free stuff as essential parts 
of the system. That would endanger our survival

that is understandable ....

what are general reactions to new Syllable releases? Is there increased 
interest? Has any company e.g. showed their interest?

I mean - in the area of embedded systems for e.g. I can see Syllable 
as AmigaOS for x86 .... maybe AROS guys could join you :-)

Anyone still an Amiga user now will not be persuaded... :-)

Although we do currently have 11 of them in our poll - just as many 
as declare themselves fulltime Syllable users :-)

Interest has definitely been picking up, especially over the last 
year, but it's a slow process

The interesting thing is that we have these rings around the inner 
circles that each are an order of magnitude bigger than the adjacent 
one

In the coming years, each time we improve the functionality enough 
to make the system usable for the next ring, the number of users 
will increase by an order of magnitude

I am not sure I understand the ring concept, but never mind :-)

what system is your closest competition? AROS? Any of BeOS resurrection 
projects? SkyOS?

5 Core developers, maybe 50 that have contributed at some time, 500 
on the mailing list, more than 1000 on the forum, 5000 who download 
each install CD, more than 10,000 who download each live CD and emulator 
image, tens of thousands who come visit when we're on OSNews, roughly 
an order of magnitude more when we're on Slashdot

Haiku, I would say

12 rings for humans, 9 for dwarfs, 5 for the elves and 1 for the 
project master   ;-)

Something like that :-)

9 for mortal men doomed to die, 7 for the Dwarf lords in their halls 
of stone, 3 for the Elves.... and 1 to rule them all,.. in the land 
of Mordor, where the shadows lie...

Interestingly, more than a percent of the hits on our own web site 
are from our native Syllable web browser

is Sassenranch a Mordor land then? :-)

Myyyy preciousssss!

People are starting to seriously use it, although we had expected 
this only to start happening with this 0.6.1 release

:-)

http://www.moka5.com/livepc.. syllable as a livepc

Cool, thanks for the find

Yesterday we released Syllable 0.6.2. The full announcement is here:

http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=246

It has taken us half a year this time. Almost all parts of the system 
have been overhauled, but this includes my build system. The system 
build is now finally fully automated, and we are confident that we 
can use this to get back to one release every two or three months

This release also marks the first time that Orca is actually used 
in the system, after already being included in the previous release. 
I rewrote pkgmanager in it, a tool used to register and unregister 
binary packages by managing a pool of symbolic links

Other highlights of this release are:

- A new audio subsystem, partly moved from the kernel to user space, 
including support for multichannel and digital audio. Video is also 
improved, with support for many more video formats

- A new scheduler, which makes things like audio and video much more 
usable. You can now keep using the system for other tasks while playing 
multimedia. In fact, we can now easily replicate the famous BeOS 
demo with six videos running at the same time

- We fixed enough bugs in SMP and threading that the system is usable 
again on at least a number of SMP, Hyper Threading and multi-core 
machines

Quite a few new drivers, for NTFS, USB keyboards, audio and several 
gigabit ethernet adapters

- Many more system parts and applications were made localizable and 
got translations for a number of languages

- SDL is now included in the system, so a wide range of cross-platform 
graphical applications can be made to work, often with little effort

Congatulations Kaj!

Thanks :-)

will try it , there was an article about Syllable in this months 
Linux Format with Kristian

Yeah, I was actually at the photo shoot for that :-)

Kaj is it possible to get a vmdk for Syllable ? I updated my copy 
of VMware but it did not work so I'm using VmPlayer

Yes, there's an external site hosting VMWare images. It's linked 
from our announcement of 0.6.2 and from our Get It page

Note that, although behavior in VMWare is improved with this release, 
speed is not optimal. There are a few tricks to improve it

ok thanks dling now

ok got it running but does not seem like a normal *nix system.Mainly 
I was trying to find the /mnt dir and does not seem like it has 1 
?Also I got the email program set up and it dled my mail but was 
not able to open the folder ?

That's right, Syllable is not Unix. Indeed there is no /mnt directory. 
There could be, and like Unix, volumes can be mounted anywhere in 
the file tree, but the convention is to mount volumes in the root: 
/

On the desktop, you can open the Disks folder, and then rightclick 
in the background to get a mount dialog and choose an available volume. 
Those will be mounted in the root. Manually in the terminal, you 
could mount volumes anywhere with the mount and unmount commands

A clear distinction from Unix is that the root of the filesystem 
is virtual (it's kept in a RAM disk). Links, directories and mounts 
there are cleared when the system is rebooted