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No screenshots for a GUI-centric OS? Seriously?

suction 5y ago
I wonder if the reason is that it looks really unpolished (there are some screenshots on Imgur). Those sidebars would get your team fired at Apple. If this isn't the final look then I apologise.
- cestith 5y ago
  It's not the final anything. It's a pre-alpha developer's preview.
throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
This is incredibly common. Why would you develop anything and then not provide screenshots? Even for CLIs screenshots are useful! What's the first thing you see on Apple's Big Sur landing page[1]? A big fat screenshot! What about Windows 11 preview[2]? Yep, screenshots! I can't think of a single time when the first thing I want to see on a landing page (or 1 click away) is not a screenshot or a demo. [1]: https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-11 https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-11
ABS 5y ago
oh c'mon, it's a pre-alpha/pre-release of something someone is developing in their spare time and haven't even posted on HN themselves. It's open and on github. It clearly says at the bottom of that page A Developer Preview image of Airyx is currently available here. It's open to everyone, but is mainly intended for developers helping build the system and is not ready for daily use yet. Running in a virtual machine is recommended, although it should work on any hardware supported by FreeBSD 12.2 with at least 4GB RAM. (8GB is recommended.) and there is a direct link to the download page. Downloading the ISO and mounting it in a VM took me problably less time than it took you to write this self-entitled comment.
- throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
  Come on, you can't seriously respond to "can I see some screenshots" with "just download the ISO and install a VM"... Requesting screenshots is not entitlement, it's both legitimate AND a useful advice to improve the landing page.
StevePerkins 5y ago
The OS doesn't exist today. Mostly likely it never will. Like half of the projects posted to HN, this is "aspirational". A landing page for a project that someone would sure like to do.
- slaughtr 5y ago
  Sure it does, they link to the developer preview: https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases
  - StevePerkins 5y ago
    That is essentially a repackaging of helloSystem (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs https://hellosystem.github.io/docs), which itself is a FreeBSD spin with a custom display manager. The "source code" in this repo consists entirely of Makefiles and build scripts for working with helloSystem, along with a few FreeBSD header includes that were copied verbatim. I mean, more power and best of luck to the author here. But let's not exaggerate the act of forking another repo and tinkering with its build process. All of the items in the post here (e.g. macOS application and filesystem compatibility) are still twinkles in the author's eye at this point.

I wonder if the reason is that it looks really unpolished (there are some screenshots on Imgur). Those sidebars would get your team fired at Apple. If this isn't the final look then I apologise.

cestith 5y ago
It's not the final anything. It's a pre-alpha developer's preview.

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago

This is incredibly common. Why would you develop anything and then not provide screenshots? Even for CLIs screenshots are useful! What's the first thing you see on Apple's Big Sur landing page[1]? A big fat screenshot! What about Windows 11 preview[2]? Yep, screenshots! I can't think of a single time when the first thing I want to see on a landing page (or 1 click away) is not a screenshot or a demo. [1]: https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-11 https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-11

ABS 5y ago

oh c'mon, it's a pre-alpha/pre-release of something someone is developing in their spare time and haven't even posted on HN themselves. It's open and on github. It clearly says at the bottom of that page A Developer Preview image of Airyx is currently available here. It's open to everyone, but is mainly intended for developers helping build the system and is not ready for daily use yet. Running in a virtual machine is recommended, although it should work on any hardware supported by FreeBSD 12.2 with at least 4GB RAM. (8GB is recommended.) and there is a direct link to the download page. Downloading the ISO and mounting it in a VM took me problably less time than it took you to write this self-entitled comment.

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
Come on, you can't seriously respond to "can I see some screenshots" with "just download the ISO and install a VM"... Requesting screenshots is not entitlement, it's both legitimate AND a useful advice to improve the landing page.

StevePerkins 5y ago

The OS doesn't exist today. Mostly likely it never will. Like half of the projects posted to HN, this is "aspirational". A landing page for a project that someone would sure like to do.

slaughtr 5y ago
Sure it does, they link to the developer preview: https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases
- StevePerkins 5y ago
  That is essentially a repackaging of helloSystem (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs https://hellosystem.github.io/docs), which itself is a FreeBSD spin with a custom display manager. The "source code" in this repo consists entirely of Makefiles and build scripts for working with helloSystem, along with a few FreeBSD header includes that were copied verbatim. I mean, more power and best of luck to the author here. But let's not exaggerate the act of forking another repo and tinkering with its build process. All of the items in the post here (e.g. macOS application and filesystem compatibility) are still twinkles in the author's eye at this point.