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The first public alpha release of Symphony OS is now available. Symphony OS is a Debian/KNOPPIX-based desktop distribution with some radical ideas about ease of use
The first public alpha release of Symphony OS is now available. Symphony OS is a Debian/KNOPPIX-based desktop distribution with some radical ideas about ease of use; see screenshots for some interesting images of the "Mezzo" desktop. Alpha 3 has been released for public testing: "I have seeded a torrent file for Alpha 3. Please be sure to read the trademark policy here before downloading Symphony OS. Please note: this is alpha quality code and known to be buggy." If you are interested in helping to test the release or simply curious about this new Linux distribution, you can download the ISO image via BitTorrent
This looks really interesting. Their ideas about interface design are quite good, and the use of corners is simply genius (having a trackball myself, it's the kind of interface that is just too easy to use :) ). It looks a bit like the interfaces on touch-type screen systems that I have seen and used, and they strike me as quite easy to acquire, even for people very removed from technological fields.
This is a project to look at further. I hope all their code is under the GPL so that the good ideas can cross-polinize the community and be quickly adopted elsewhere. The corners especially are great (I must say my own desktop is organised in such a way, I packed together on all four corners the icons I use most, grouping them by themes, so you can imagine why I'm so lyric over this interface idea). If their package manager idea succeeds, it will also be a great step.
Now why use one of the most unfriendly languages to program their friendly interface...
Great! Anyway, I bookmarked the site and will check the evolution of the distro.
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This is a project to look at further. I hope all their code is under the GPL so that the good ideas can cross-polinize the community and be quickly adopted elsewhere. The corners especially are great (I must say my own desktop is organised in such a way, I packed together on all four corners the icons I use most, grouping them by themes, so you can imagine why I'm so lyric over this interface idea). If their package manager idea succeeds, it will also be a great step.
Now why use one of the most unfriendly languages to program their friendly interface...