AtheOS

AtheOS, an acronym for Athena Operating System, was an open source operating system for the Intel x86 platform. At first AtheOS was intended to be an AmigaOS clone, although this goal was later abandoned.

Kurt Skauen, developer, does not know how to define if AtheOS is a microkernel, or a monolithic kernel, since he did not follow a specific structure when developing the kernel.

Development of AtheOS has ceased and it has been replaced by Syllable.

Origin

The origin of AtheOS dates back to around 1994, when the young Norwegian programmer Kurt Skauen started the project as a hobby that later became more serious.

Some time later in the year 2000, AtheOS is released under the GPL license, after Kurt developed the entire kernel by himself and all the system components, such as the GUI (Graphical User Interface) and its own 64-bit filesystem with journaling.

Although Kurt released his system under the GPL, he was always reluctant to share the code and include patches made by community programmers, and it should be noted that despite this, he received a good number of applications for AtheOS by part of it.

Kurt reportedly released the AtheOS source code as a gift, but he didn't feel he had to accept any input or input from the community on his project, which didn't elicit much sympathy from Kurt. programmers who wanted to collaborate.

The coup de grace for AtheOS occurs when Kurt Skauen disappears without explanation, thus leaving the project abandoned, leaving no message or notice. It launched the latest version in October 2001 and the web stopped updating in 2002.

Ultimately this all resulted in the AtheOS community taking the code and creating a successor by the name of Syllable.