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SkyOS
SkyOS
SkyOS desktop screenshot (build 6669).
Website: SkyOS
Company/
developer:		 Robert Szeleney
OS family: POSIX-compliant
Source model: Closed source
Latest stable release: Build 6669 / November 18, 2006
Kernel type: Extendable Kernel
Default user interface: SkyGI
License: Proprietary
Working state: Beta

SkyOS is a proprietary operating system currently in production. SkyOS is mostly POSIX compliant, and comes with the core of the open source GNU tools, including GCC. Due to its level of POSIX compliance and port of the GTK+ widget toolkit, many Linux or other UNIX applications have been ported, including AbiWord and Gaim, as well as a few games, such as Quake.

As of 2006, SkyOS has limited hardware support due to a lack of available device drivers. However, many devices are currently supported, including a number of network devices, sound adapters, and storage devices, to name a few. The current beta build (build 6669) includes a USB stack, DMA support, and a port of CUPS to allow printing support to a large number of local and network printing devices. Although SkyOS has support for graphics cards in 2D accelerated or VESA modes, it lacks the ability to take advantage of the 3D hardware found on modern graphics cards like nVidia's GeForce and ATI's Radeon range.

SkyOS has applications for many common desktop computing tasks: Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird have been ported. Additionally, a handful of third-party developers have created a number of native applications and games for SkyOS.

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