AtheOS

AtheOS (formerly Altos ) is a standing under the GNU General Public License free operating system for desktop use on x86 processors. It was developed by Kurt Skauen. He has also been ported to various software AtheOS, such as Apache and KHTML for the web browser ABrowse. Originally AtheOS was planned as AmigaOS clone, but it is nothing as the default window decoration remained.

This system was no longer developed since around 2001, it exists with Syllable however, a spin-off.

AtheOS and other systems

AtheOS has, in contrast to the many flavors of Unix that implement the graphical user interface all through an X Window System, a kernel with integrated GUI. Furthermore AtheOS implemented only part of the POSIX standard.

Also AtheOS has nothing to do with BeOS. They are neither -source code nor binary compatible. The development of AtheOS started completely independent of the pre-launch of BeOS. Similarly, both projects is simply that they have abolished the separation of kernel and a graphical user interface, as was, however, even with Mac OS already common.

However, the C APIs AtheOS and BeOS are similar enough that the programmer Bill Hayden the Application Server and the interface kit from AtheOS on a 2.4 Linux kernel porting within six months and modify so could that run BeOS applications left. This work led to the operating system Cosmoe.

Features

• A 64- bit journaling file system ( AtheOS File System)
• Essentially POSIX compatibility
• An integrated GUI server
• Low latency
• SMP support