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SkyOS is a discontinued prototype commercial, Proprietary software, proprietary, graphical desktop operating system written for the x86 computer architecture. Its first version was released in 1997, and its last beta build was released in 2008. As of January 30, 2009, development of the OS was halted, with no plans to resume its development. In August 2013, developer Robert Szeleney announced the release of a public beta on the SkyOS website. This allows public users to download a Live CD of the SkyOS operating system, for testing and to optionally install the system. History Development started in 1996, with the first version released in December 1997. Up until version 4.x, the OS was freely available. Starting with beta development of SkyOS 5 in 2003, users were required to pay US$30 to get access to beta releases. SkyOS adapted new filesystem SkyFS based on OpenBFS in 2004, and its graphics subsystem was improved in 2006 with support for Compositing window manager, deskt ...
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