Editing Blog/2025-01-06/Athene OS (section)

== Follow Up ==

On a related thread, I happened to ask Hacker News if anyone knew what this could be
{{HackerNews
 | url      = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787804
 | comment  = yes
 | author   = arjie
 | title    = Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 
 | text     = Speaking of these, does anyone recall the AtheneOS distribution/OS. There’s an archive.org copy of the desktop environment version of it, but I recall there was a really fast version with only 2D graphics and it was a full distribution.
Can anyone validate whether this is real? I tried contacting the guy who wrote it but the Companies House address for his company (Rocklyte) bounced the letter.
 | date     = 2025-11-02
 | score    = 426
 | comments = 107
}}
{{HackerNews
 | url      = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788719
 | comment  = yes
 | author   = anthk
 | title    = Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 
 | text     = Syllabe OS?
 | date     = 2025-11-02
 | score    = 426
 | comments = 107
}}
I could have sworn it was AtheneOS that I had tried in the past, but what if I had just tried a few of them in rapid succession and blurred them in my memory? Entirely possible, I think, because these screenshots look very familiar to me. So it might well be [https://syllable.metaproject.frl/ Syllable OS].