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Hello friends! Thanks for checking out my project, it's always fun to have visitors :) If you would like to hear the story behind the "Serenity" name, and what

by akling 7y ago

Hello friends! Thanks for checking out my project, it's always fun to have visitors :) If you would like to hear the story behind the "Serenity" name, and what led up to the creation of this OS, I spoke about it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3JkNGKZtqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3JkNGKZtqM Also check out this 1 minute video of the Serenity Browser in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9wONA1MHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9wONA1MHc Ofc I'm happy to answer any questions about the system! Previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126

forgotmypw1 7y ago
does your browser support forms? i,m working on ultra compatible web forum system and curious if it would work... even without form support, it is possible... would you be interested in trying? your objectives for the user study would be to read, vote, and comment. link is in my profile. tia
- akling 7y ago
  Hello there. The Serenity Browser does not support forms yet. It also does not support HTTPS. It barely supports anything other than parsing well-formed HTML and CSS, and doing some basic CSS2.1-ish layout. It's far too soon to be testing compatibility with anything :)
  - forgotmypw1 7y ago
    no forms and no https is needed. you can make a new submission by putting it in the url. anything not existing already becomes a new post. thank you for responding. it would mean a lot to me to be able to claim compatibility with serenity browser. maybe i,ll just try it myself, if i can figure it out. already compatible with ncsa mosaic 1.0 ))
zamadatix 7y ago
Hey, I'm really glad to see you've continued to work on this - it's one of those projects that is just naturally fun to watch be made. How far has the GCC port come? Is the project anywhere near self hosting being a feasible task?
- akling 7y ago
  Hey zamadatix! I’m glad too, it’s been tons of fun making it. The GCC port is pretty decent. You can build about 90% of the system inside itself but you eventually hit some kernel bug that crashes the build, ironically usually while building the kernel itself. There’s debugging to be done, but that’s true of the whole system.. We’ll get there eventually. The fs/disk performance is also quite terrible and, which you can really feel during builds with GCC. I need to look into what’s happening there as well :)

by akling 7y ago

forgotmypw1 7y ago

does your browser support forms? i,m working on ultra compatible web forum system and curious if it would work... even without form support, it is possible... would you be interested in trying? your objectives for the user study would be to read, vote, and comment. link is in my profile. tia

akling 7y ago
Hello there. The Serenity Browser does not support forms yet. It also does not support HTTPS. It barely supports anything other than parsing well-formed HTML and CSS, and doing some basic CSS2.1-ish layout. It's far too soon to be testing compatibility with anything :)
- forgotmypw1 7y ago
  no forms and no https is needed. you can make a new submission by putting it in the url. anything not existing already becomes a new post. thank you for responding. it would mean a lot to me to be able to claim compatibility with serenity browser. maybe i,ll just try it myself, if i can figure it out. already compatible with ncsa mosaic 1.0 ))

zamadatix 7y ago

Hey, I'm really glad to see you've continued to work on this - it's one of those projects that is just naturally fun to watch be made. How far has the GCC port come? Is the project anywhere near self hosting being a feasible task?

akling 7y ago
Hey zamadatix! I’m glad too, it’s been tons of fun making it. The GCC port is pretty decent. You can build about 90% of the system inside itself but you eventually hit some kernel bug that crashes the build, ironically usually while building the kernel itself. There’s debugging to be done, but that’s true of the whole system.. We’ll get there eventually. The fs/disk performance is also quite terrible and, which you can really feel during builds with GCC. I need to look into what’s happening there as well :)