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It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity. It's really nice to see some progress there
by still_grokking 5y ago
It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity.
It's really nice to see some progress there!
Would be cool if someone would port a GUI environment like KDE. I guess this could attract more people. Currently there isn't much "to see". Most of the interesting parts are in the guts of this system. An usable desktop could bring more people that want tinker with with it I guess — as OS dev is much more fun if you don't have to try out every change in a VM.
- snvzz 5y agoGenode Sculpt has a modern webbrowser and hardware video acceleration. It also has VirtualBox, so it can be used for day by day computing by running Linux for misc tasks in a VM, and the developers absolutely do dogfood it. I doubt porting KDE (which isn't at all made for a system centered around the capability model) would be a good use of Genode team's time.
- dwaite 5y ago> It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity. From a research project perspective, it is interesting. Software which is AGPL3+required contributor agreement is IMHO rather uncompelling to contribute to due to extremely asymmetric developer rights. That has given me personally little motivation to tinker with or examine the source code of their work-in-progress.
- andrekandre 5y agoif i interpret this correctly, it basically means someone else gets to own your contributions?
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoIt requires SDL. Does that mean there is some graphical element. Or is Sculpt text-only.
- snvzz 5y agoThey have screenshots on the announcement, and several videos available elsewhere (youtube, genodians.org) demonstrating the dynamic composition of the system using the graphical interface. It definitely isn't text-only.