Re: [Fresco-devel] Syllable & Berlin

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On Wednesday 18 September 2002 23:55, Plaum Waetzold wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First of all, I have to point out, that I'm NOT a programmer. I'm
> just interested in what's going on in the free software scene. So
> don't laugh at my ideas.

I won't. Promised.

<snip>

> First let me say some words about the two projekts for those, who
> don't know one of then. (The most i took from the current homepages
> (http://syllable.sourceforge.net/; http://www.berlin-
> consortium.org/):

We have (or are about to or will) change our name to Fresco, I'm just bringing 
this up to avoid confusion once the namechange gets a bit more public and 
since I tend to think of "Fresco" not "Berlin" anymore.

<snip>

> 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.

I have not yet heared of Syllable, but we try to be highly portable, so given 
that syllable is a modern OS that has some way to get to the Graphics 
hardware, can deliver events from input devices and supports threading it 
should be possible to port Fresco over without too much hassle (we hope;-)

We will not do that right now though: We do have enough on our plate so we 
just do not have the manpower to support such a rather exotic OS. There is 
enough to do to have Fresco run on Linux! We are allways willing to cooperate 
of course, so if someone would port Fresco to Syllable (or any other OS) we 
will try to help as much as possible.

<snip>

> So think about my proposal and tell me your oppinion!

Lets be frank: There are lots of revolutionary OSes around and at least as 
many groundbreaking GUI environments. Let's all try to make a good product 
with clean interfaces, lets talk about what we require from each other, lets 
try to incorporate as much of that as possible and learn from each other. I'm 
not (only) speaking about Fresco and Syllable, but more about the complete 
free software scene.

PS: I know of two or three projects working on a new OS that have a statement 
about wanting to use Fresco on their webpages. And I know at least two or 
three OSes that I'd like to run Fresco on some day;-)

- -- 
Gruss,
Tobias

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