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Total Freedom Nov 10, 19:23
[Announcement]The Dutch website of Software Freedom Day is now running on Syllable Server and the included Cheyenne web server. This has given the site much more storage space for their multimedia content, virtual hosting under their own domain names and the freedom to use server technologies of choice. The site was already made with the same content management system that Kaj is developing for the Syllable sites.
Welcome to Linux Magazine Readers Nov 1, 19:19
[Announcement]Bas picked up the new Dutch Linux Magazine this morning, that has hit the shops now. This November issue, number 5 of this year, has a four-page article on Syllable, including an interview Kristian did with them.
Syllable Conference Fimbul Winter Edition Oct 25, 20:58
[Announcement]Bas has announced that he will organise the first winter edition of the Syllable Conference. We set up its own page for it, where Bas will keep you posted as the event evolves.
From Russia with Love Oct 25, 20:34
[Announcement]Dmitry ("Rohan" on the forum) has requested an official Russian website, so we set it up. Dmitry will be translating it over time.
The Second Coming of Software Freedom Day Sep 17, 18:58
[Announcement]Kaj will be presenting the brand new Syllable Server 0.3 at the Software Freedom Day event coming Saturday, September 20, in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He will also be present at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam the two days before. Although there won't be a Syllable presentation there, if you'd like to speak with Kaj you can catch him while walking around, or enquire with Bas at the Software Freedom Day booth at HOSC.
Watch the Watchers Sep 16, 16:33
[Announcement]Thanks to the fact that Syllable Server is a Linux, and after having gone through their waiting list, Syllable is now listed on DistroWatch, the major monitoring site of Linux distributions and a few BSD and Solaris systems.
Three is a Charm Sep 12, 8:33
[Syllable]The third release of Syllable Server has been published. This is an important release, because it is the first one that focused on making the system actually usable as a server. A number of popular servers were added and configured, and also several innovative REBOL software stacks. Out of the imaginary box, Syllable Server is now ready for such things as accepting remote SSH log-ins over the network, running a web server on the Cheyenne REBOL server, running an FTP server and several more. Special attention has been paid to programmability, with support for developing Model-View-Controller web applications in QuarterMaster and networking applications with the REBOL/Services Service Oriented Architecture. The Genode Nitpicker windowing system is also included. Read the rest in the full changelog. An extensive manual was also written, which is easy to follow. As usual, both a BitTorrent download (preferred) and a regular download are available (80 MB 7-Zip archive). Please use the torrent if you can.
Software Freedom Day Sep 6, 22:06
[Announcement]Apart from organising Syllable events, Bas is very active in circles of open source, open standards and open content in general. A truly open guy. :-) He also organises Software Freedom Day in the Netherlands. His free event will take place next weekend on September the 13th. It's well worth attending, with around twenty organisations setting up booths and holding talks. In addition, Bas will be demonstrating Syllable and the upcoming new Syllable Server release.
A DOSE of Technology Sep 6, 21:53
[Announcement]Bas will be representing Syllable at the T-DOSE conference in the Netherlands, the free Technical Dutch Open Source Event, "The place where experts meet". In the weekend of October 25 and 26, in the city of Eindhoven, at the Fontys University of Applied Science, there will be more than twenty speakers and many open source projects will shed light on their workings. Bas will present Syllable in a talk and man a booth.
SylCon Photos Aug 7, 12:23
[Announcement]Here are the photographs from SylCon, courtesy of skoet.nl, our shippers:
http://skoet.nl/vakantie08/page2.htm (from halfway)
http://skoet.nl/vakantie08/page3.htm
http://skoet.nl/vakantie08/page4.htm
http://skoet.nl/vakantie08/page5.htm
We also have some videos, but they will take longer to process. Bas will try to make a new issue of SDN with a SylCon report.
German and Slovenian Translations Aug 5, 23:31
[Announcement]Localised web sites are springing out of the earth. Michael Utz and Matic Gradiser have offered to be the editors of German and Slovenian versions of our web site, respectively, so we created them. As with the other translated sites, Michael and Matic will complete and maintain the translations over time. They would also like to try their hand at creating and maintaining the German and Slovenian translations of Syllable itself.
Forum Moved Aug 5, 15:13
[Announcement]We moved our forum to a new hosting location. If you bookmarked it, please update the link. All data is migrated, so you can simply log in as before.
USB Bug Gets the Boot Aug 5, 14:57
[Syllable]Kristian tracked down and fixed the bug that prevented Syllable from booting off a USB device. We published a new development build that will boot from a USB CD player. This means Syllable can now be installed on machines that don't have an IDE CD player, such as the Asus Eee PC and other small laptops. Also, with some extra settings in the boot loader, it should now be possible to install Syllable to a USB device, such as a memory stick. On SylCon, we found out that the extra SD memory slot in the Eee PC is connected via USB internally. It should now be possible to install Syllable to an extra memory card, so you don't have to touch the default operating system on the main drive.
The new development build also has the new Webster browser included.
Update: further bugs in our USB support turn out to cause lock-ups when trying to install to a USB medium such as a memory stick. This problem will need to be fixed before we can do so.
Introducing Image Viewer Aug 5, 14:22
[Applications][ImageViewer]Jonas Jarvoll released his new Image Viewer application. It's more capable than the AView picture viewer that's included with Syllable. Image Viewer is now listed in our applications downloads.
Meet Webster Jul 24, 16:08
[Applications][Webster]More creative destruction. Another long-time milestone has been reached. It has always been our plan to factor out the web rendering engine of ABrowse into a library with a native Syllable View widget on top, so it can be embedded into more applications than just a web browser. Kristian did just that: building on Arno's WebCore port, he updated that and then stepped up the modularisation by creating the WebView class. He rewrote the browser on top of that and named it Webster. The first alpha version is available in our applications downloads. The latest Syllable 0.6.6 development build is required to run it, as several bugs in the system were fixed for the new browser. The source code is available on our development site.
SylCon Development Builds Jul 24, 16:06
[Syllable]We slept through a storm on the ship. We docked alongside a clipper a bit too hastily; another clipper, the Hollandia, crashed into us. Nothing new, shippers from Holland have always sucked. We saw a Black-headed Gull die; we saw a Great Crested Grebe feed a fish to her young. Nothing else is important, is it? Oh, there's another cycle of destruction and creation. We demonstrated a new development build of Syllable Server that we created just before the conference. While we were sailing in Friesland, Kristian produced a new development build of Syllable Desktop in England. Both are now published here.
Zorro Strikes Again Jul 14, 19:45
[Announcement]Unfortunately, we had to replace our Spanish web site. We extended our content management system to create a fully integrated new one, so it is now an official branch of our main web site. Lucas Murad created the old site and will be editing the new one.
We took the opportunity to also overhaul our Dutch site and pull it into the content management system. Bas de Lange is the editor. The sites currently still show the original English content. The editors will be translating it over time.

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Syllable is a volunteer project that creates a family of easy to use, free software operating systems. You can use them separately, or you can use them together to form network platforms. Read our full introduction and go to the Syllable Desktop and Syllable Server sites for more information, news and software downloads.

[Syllable Desktop]Syllable Desktop is an original, modern operating system design, in the tradition of the Amiga and BeOS, but built using many parts from the GNU project and Linux. It is designed and optimised for your desktop PC, making it exceptionally fast and responsive and easy to use. It is under development, so it is interesting and even exciting to try out, but you have to decide for yourself whether it fits your needs already. Syllable Desktop runs on industry-standard Personal Computers with a minimum of a Pentium compatible processor and 32 MB of memory. It can make a new computer extremely fast and an old computer usable again.

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Syllable Desktop site

[Syllable Server]Syllable Server is a small and efficient Linux operating system. It uses the Linux kernel and is compatible with Linux software, but is otherwise built to be as similar as possible to Syllable Desktop, using mostly the same parts. It is optimised for server computers, yet inherits a lot of efficiency and speed from the Syllable Desktop design. The current version only has a text mode console interface suitable for server use and elementary support for running some graphical programs (it is shown here running on Syllable Desktop under emulation). Nonetheless, the clean Syllable design and straightforward documentation make it easy to use. The graphical user interface from Syllable Desktop will be added in later versions to enhance ease of use further. Due to its Linux base, Syllable Server is a stable and usable system. It runs on industry-standard Personal Computers with a minimum of a 486 processor and 16 MB of memory. It can make a new computer very fast and efficient and an old computer usable again.

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Syllable Server site