Syllable Server For Linux

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Last updated: Jun 9, 2010 GPL

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This is the official server edition of the open-source Syllable Linux operating system. #Linux distribution #Operating system #Linux server #Syllable #Server #Linux

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Syllable Server is an open source and completely free server-oriented distribution of Linux forked from the AtheOS operating system and designed from the ground up to be used for deploying a dedicated server system.

The Server edition of Syllable is distributed as a root file system (rootfs) compressed as a XZ archive inside a ZIP file, which has been tagged with the i486 architectures, supporting only 32-bit applications.

To use it, you must download the 100MB ZIP archive, extract it and open the extracted folder. Inside you’ll find the XZ archive with the rootfs (root filesystem) and some useful documentation about how to install the server system.

As mentioned in the review for Syllable Desktop, the operating system must be installed before usage. The fact that Syllable Server is not distributed as an ISO image makes things even harder for new Linux users.

Basically, you’ll have to prepare disk partitions, install the system files, install and configure a bootloader, configure the filesystems table, setup a keyboard layout, configure the network interfaces, as well as to create system users.

All things considered, we have to admit that Syllable Server is one of the hardest to install server-oriented operating systems. The Desktop edition is also not user-friendly and because of this we don’t recommend it to Linux/UNIX beginners.

It’s a distribution of hardcore UNIX/Linux users who want something different, a new challenge. There are better server-oriented operating systems out there, so out suggestion is to search Softpedia for an easy to install operating system.

What's new in Syllable Server 0.4:

About half the packages in the system were upgraded, including key components such as the Linux kernel, UDev, the LFS init scripts, DirectFB, SDL, BASh, Packager, OpenSSH, REBOL/Core, the Cheyenne web server and CDRTools. Other important packages such as Ruby, Midnight Commander, Links and Transmission were also updated. XZ-Utils was added, providing the same LZMA compression as in 7-Zip, but in a different format that is becoming popular, and is better integrated with POSIX systems. TAr was upgraded and this version has support for XZ-Utils. Compression of the system distribution was changed from 7-Zip to XZ format. The latest development versions of Cheyenne and UniServe are included, which provide a new WebSockets framework for advanced persistent, full-duplex communication with the latest web browsers.
As an example of clearer system structure and improved security, the super user account has been renamed from "root" to "system". Logging in to this account has been disabled: you are now supposed to log in to the account named "administrator" to manage the system. From this account, you can use the sudo command to perform actions with system privileges.

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