Willkommen bei Syllable

Vielen Dank, dass Sie Syllable, eines der reizvollsten quelloffenen Betriebssysteme unserer Zeit, installiert haben! Syllable war in kontinuierlicher Entwicklung für viele Jahre und stellt ein kompaktes, schnelles, gut strukturiertes und einfach zu nutzendes Betriebssystem dar. Anders als viele andere quelloffene Betriebssysteme hat Syllable Desktop nur ein Ziel: das beste quelloffene Betriebssystem auf Ihrem Desktoprechner zu sein. Für die Nutzung auf einem Server bieten wir ein verwandtes, aber getrenntes Produkt an: Syllable Server.

Die Software und die Dateien, die mit Syllable verteilt werden, werden unter verschiedenen Copyrights und Lizenzen herausgegeben. Das Copyright-Dokument liefert weitere Informationen.

Syllable bietet bereits Internet- und Multimediafähigkeiten und falls Sie daran interessiert sind, Software für Syllable zu entwicklen, erwartet Sie ein einzigartiges und aufregendes Design.

Was immer Sie tun möchten, dieses kurze Dokument möchte Ihnen mit Ihrer neuen Syllable-Installation helfen und bietet Verweise zu weiteren Informationen.

Ihre Sprache und Ihr Tastaturlayout einstellen

Die regulären Syllable-Distributionen sind auf die englische Sprache und US-amerikanisches Tastaturlayout eingestellt. Sie können die Sprache ändern, indem Sie mithilfe des Dock-Menüs von Syllable oder durch öffnen des Einstellungsfensters vom Desktop zu Preferences/Locale gehen. Dort finden Sie eine Liste von Sprachen und Ländern, aus denen Sie wählen können. Es ist möglich, mehrere Sprachen auszuwählen. Wenn Sie dies tun, werden die Übersetzungen der Sprachen, die weiter oben in der Liste stehen, Priorität über denen erhalten, die weiter unten stehen. Wenn für irgendein spezielles Objekt in einem Programm keine Übersetzung verfügbar ist, wird der englische Standardtext verwendet.

Um die Tastatureinstellungen zu ändern, gehen Sie zu Preferences/Keyboard. Sie können dort ein anderes Layout auswählen oder einige andere Konfigurationen der Tastatur ändern.

Konfiguration des Netzwerks

Syllable is configured to use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) by default for finding a network connection. However, this is currently not reflected in the Network Preferences. Although after start-up you will get a dialog saying that the network configuration has changed and needs to be set, after closing this dialog the network will be found automatically by DHCP in most cases. To get rid of this message, or to set a static network configuration, go to Preferences/Network through the Syllable dock menu or by opening the Preferences window from the desktop, and configure the network explicitly. (If no network interfaces are shown in this window, Syllable didn't recognise any network chips in your computer.)

Konfiguration der Soundkarte

Sound is not enabled yet when you first start Syllable. To configure it, go to Preferences/Media through the Syllable dock menu or by opening the Preferences window from the desktop. First, you have to choose the default audio output from a drop-down list. (Options are shown together with the name of your audio chip. If the list is empty, Syllable didn't recognise any audio chips in your computer.) Normally, you would choose the Media Server option. However, this method is currently likely to interfere with video playback. For better video playback, set audio output directly to OSS. Click the Apply button to save the change.

Then click the Stream Volumes button to bring up the audio mixer window. The first tab panel is the mixer for hardware channels. You may have to increase the levels of Volume (line out) and PCM (software-generated audio) here to get a satisfactory volume level. The second panel is the software mixer where audio streams from separate applications are shown. Note that the master volume in the software mixer is limited by the Volume and PCM levels in the hardware mixer. Close the mixer and Media Preferences windows before starting any multimedia applications.

Please note that Syllable currently doesn't remember the volume level settings after a restart, so you may have to enter the mixer panel again. In the Dock Preferences you can enable a Mixer applet that will give you immediate access from the dock to the master volume of the software mixer.

Zugriff auf Speichermedien

Syllable can access extra partitions you may have on your hard drive, or external media such as USB memory sticks and equivalent storage in MP3 players and some photo cameras. External media usually come in FAT (Windows) format (and usually have only one partition). Syllable can both read from and write to them. Disk partitions may also be formatted as BFS (BeOS), NTFS (Windows) or Ext2/Ext3 (Linux). Syllable can currently only read from NTFS and Ext2/3 formats.

Before you can access extra media, you need to mount it. You can do this by opening the Disks icon on the desktop. Then click with the right mouse button in the background of the Disks window. Select the Mount option from the pop-up menu to get a list of available partitions and choose one to mount. A mounted partition will appear as an extra icon in the Disks window, from where you can open it to browse its files. In the file system, the extra partition is mounted in the root of all files ("/"), under a subdirectory with the name of the partition (or "/no name/" if it doesn't have one).

Please note that mounted media needs to be unmounted again before you can safely remove external media such as a memory stick. You can do this by right-clicking on its icon in the Disks window and selecting the Unmount option from the menu that pops up. All storage media will be unmounted automatically when you shut down or restart Syllable.

Herunterfahren und neustarten

The system can be shut down or restarted by choosing the Quit option from the Syllable menu in the dock (normally in the top left). Any open applications will get the opportunity to shut down orderly, but sometimes an application can prevent the system from shutting down. If this happens, you can force the system to restart by pressing the Control, Alt and Delete keys simultaneously. This will force applications to close, but will still orderly shut down the system, such as safely unmounting all mounted storage media.

Software

Syllable is designed as a modern desktop operating system, and has a unique design which makes managing software easy.

We separate software for Syllable into two categories. Software which has been written for Syllable, using methods unique to Syllable, is known as "native" software. Syllable is also capable of running software which has been designed for more traditional UNIX style Operating Systems such as Linux, which is known as "non-native" software.

Because non-native software can not take advantage of the advanced features Syllable offers, installing such software differs from the way in which you install native Syllable software. Instructions on how to install both native and non-native software for Syllable are described below. You should choose the correct method depending on the type of software you are installing.

Native Software installieren

Applications which have been written for Syllable can be installed anywhere you wish, although the usual location is in the /Applications directory. Most applications come as a single archive, which can be unpacked wherever you wish to install the software. Syllable uses the Zip archive format. For example, if we wanted to install the Webster web browser:

unzip Webster-alpha1.application -d /Applications

Uninstalling native software is equally simple. Just delete the application directory:

rm -r /Applications/Webster

Or delete the Webster folder from the graphical file browser.

Nicht-native Software installieren

Unix or POSIX style applications usually come as a single archive which contains all of the files the application needs in one self contained distribution. Syllable now favours the Zip archive format, but older software may still be distributed in GZiped TAr files.

To install a package you simply open a terminal window by starting the ATerm application, log in as the root user, and unpack the archive with a command such as:

unzip gcc-4.1.2-1.i586.resource -d /usr

Then you must run the Syllable package manager tool to register the package with the system. For example, to install GCC, run:

package register gcc

This will create a series of symbolic links in various subdirectories of /usr/indexes/ to make it possible for the system to find executables and other files belonging to the package.

If you want to uninstall the package you must run the package manager again to allow Syllable to properly and cleanly update itself. For example, to uninstall GCC:

package unregister gcc

You can then delete the actual package directory itself:

rm -rf /usr/gcc

Please note that this way of installing software should ONLY BE USED FOR COMMAND LINE APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PORTED TO SYLLABLE FROM UNIX AND OTHER OS's USING A UNIX LIKE FILESYSTEM. Native applications should use the various mechanisms available in Syllable for making the application "position independent" so it can be installed anywhere. See the section "Installing native software" for more information.

Hilfe und Unterstützung

Syllable is an Open Source project, but you'll find our small community of users and developers are friendly and helpful. If you have a question or need help using Syllable, the following resources may be useful. All of these links can also be found under the "Help" menu in your Bookmarks.

Die Hilfeseiten

You can read the available software manual pages with Webster from file:///documentation/man/index.html

Webforen

http://forum.syllable.org

The website forums are lively and full of useful information and interesting discussion. You can find both a quick answer or an in-depth discussion of your problem.

Die Gemeinschaft

Syllable has a lively and vibrant community which has built up around it over the years. There are many websites which are dedicated to Syllable. There are also several Syllable mailing lists, which are almost always busy and are a great way to keep in touch with other Syllable users and developers.

Syllable.org

http://www.syllable.org

Syllable.org is the official website for Syllable. News and announcements are regularly posted. The official Frequently Asked Questions can be found there.

Mailinglisten

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/syllable-developer
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/syllable-announce

If there is one thing any Syllable user should do, it is subscribe to the Syllable-Developer mailing list! Don't be put off by the name; you don't need to be a developer to join the list. The list is busy, with an average of several messages a day, but it is interesting and informative. If you have a problem and need an answer quick, the Syllable-Developer mailing list is the place to ask. Everyone is friendly and helpful, so please join in!

If you're just interested in new releases and important announcements concerning Syllable you can subscribe to the Syllable-Announce mailing list. This list is read-only and is only used to announce new releases of Syllable.

Downloads

http://de.syllable.org/Syllable/downloads.html

This place on the Syllable website is the starting point for finding additional software. Here you can find software developed for Syllable, from simple shell scripts to complete applications and games.

Entwickeln für Syllable

Syllable is still under heavy development, and there is plenty of opportunity for anybody who is interested in developing software for Syllable or working on Syllable itself.

Syllable is a POSIX compliant operating system, with large parts of POSIX 1, 2 and 4 available. Above the POSIX layer Syllable has a unique set of C++ API's which provide utility classes, a Graphical User Interface, high level I/O and networking components which can all take advantage of the advanced design of Syllable.

The development toolchain is based on the usual GNU tools such as BinUtils, GCC 4 and Make. Several editors and IDE's are available for Syllable, which can be found on the Syllable software web pages.

Many POSIX, UNIX and Linux command-line applications can be easily ported to Syllable, but Syllable does not use X11 nor any X toolkits. Porting graphical applications from other platforms requires a native Syllable GUI to be written.

The majority of the Syllable kernel and POSIX systems are licensed under the GNU General Public Licence. The Syllable C++ libraries are licenced under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

If you're interested in developing with Syllable you should join the Syllable-Developer mailing list. The source code for Syllable is available via anonymous CVS at :pserver:anonymous@syllable.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/syllable You can also browse the CVS repository at http://syllable.cvs.sourceforge.net/syllable/syllable/