- AtheOS
one source date October 2010 refimprove date October 2010 Infobox OS name AtheOS logo screenshot Image Atheos screenshot.png 250px Do not change unless you have read Wikipedia Software screenshots caption The AtheOS desktop developer Kurt Skauen source model Open source working state Discontinued kernel type released ? latest release version 0.3.7 latest release date Release date 2001 10 09 license GNU General Public License website http atheos.syllable.org index.html atheos.syllable.org index.html AtheOS was a free and open source software free and open source operating system for x86 based computers. It was initially intended as an AmigaOS clone, ref citeweb url http ann.lu comments2.cgi?view 0957529072&category news&start 1&37 title AtheOS publisher ANN date 2000 05 05 accessdate 2008 12 01 ref but that objective was later abandoned. It is no longer in development, and has been superseded by the Syllable operating system Syllable operating system. History It was created entirely by a Norway Norwegian programmer , Kurt Skauen , from 1994 to the early 2000s AtheOS was announced to the world in March 2000 on Usenet Citation needed date November 2009 . Although it was licensed as free software , Skauen was more hesitant to accept contributions from the public than other free and open source operating system projects. The availability of the code under the GNU General Public License GNU GPL allowed other developers to launch Syllable Desktop operating system Syllable , a fork from the AtheOS code base, with ongoing development. Skauen ported KHTML to AtheOS in order to create the ABrowse web browser . Features Its own native 64 bit journaling file system , the AtheOS File System usually called AFS Support for symmetric multiprocessing An original, legacy free, object oriented GUI architecture Support for most of the POSIX standard Pre emptive multitasking with Thread computer science multithreading C oriented API References Reflist External links Portal Free software ... more details
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