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Great work by everyone involved. SerenityOS is for me by far the most interesting project in tech right now. It's like watching a different branch of reality ev

• dang 5y ago
  Related: Serenity OS: Interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30214371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30214371 - Feb 2022 (52 comments) SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270776 - Nov 2021 (180 comments) SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817599 - Oct 2021 (46 comments) Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ‘90s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219800 - Aug 2021 (113 comments) SerenityOS: Graphical Unix-like operating system with classic 90s UI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28206840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28206840 - Aug 2021 (129 comments) I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317655 - May 2021 (249 comments) SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26115141 - Feb 2021 (9 comments) SerenityOS: A love letter to '90s user interfaces with a Unix-like core - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911180 - July 2020 (1 comment) SerenityOS Update (April 2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23037581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23037581 - April 2020 (1 comment) Introduction to SerenityOS Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479132 - March 2020 (43 comments) Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116914 - Jan 2020 (28 comments) CTF writeup: First published SerenityOS kernel exploit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21918351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21918351 - Dec 2019 (2 comments) SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212294 - Oct 2019 (52 comments) Serenity OS update (August 2019) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851356 - Sept 2019 (2 comments) SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986126 - May 2019 (179 comments) Serenity OS Demo (April 2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813417 - May 2019 (1 comment) Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807 - March 2019 (83 comments)
• rvz 5y ago
  Indeed. It's beyond impressive, especially the web browser from scratch and the whole idea of operating systems that are not typical, yet another Linux distro stuff and having an integrated consistent user interface and open source like RedoxOS, Haiku, Fuchsia, etc has. But let's be a bit realistic, how long can we expect this to be a reliable daily driver on real machines and not stuck on a VM? It has taken more than a decade for one of them to even run reliably on several PCs and everyone is still waiting for another to not be ridden on a VM and actually run directly on real hardware. That is me not even talking about the apps there. But if I have to choose one that will achieve all of that in the shortest time, then it would be Fuchsia wouldn't it?
  • cyberbanjo 5y ago
    SerenityOS is only a couple years old, not 10.
    • zibzab 5y ago
      Started 2018 IIRC
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  • beepbooptheory 5y ago
    I think this misunderstands the motives of this project. Its not trying to win any popularity or usability awards. I see it more as art honestly, even if it does end up having good utility, it will very much always be an encapsulation of this guys passion and expression. Don't get too poisoned by the business world! Computers dont need to be just efficiency machines.
  • loudmax 5y ago
    The challenge here would be getting all those miscellaneous hardware drivers to be ported to SerenityOS. Some hacker might write Serenity drivers for their particular desktop, but that won't do you any good unless you have the exact same hardware. A Raspberry Pi might be a good target, but Serenity OS is currently x86 only. So realistically, Serenity on random consumer hardware is unlikely to ever happen. Fuchsia is in a similar situation. Google may start pushing Fuchsia on some limited set of hardware, but I don't see a reason for them to start writing drivers for anything other than hardware from Google or Google partners. Now, I could see SerenityOS as an option inside of something like Qubes OS. Here, the hardware is abstracted so you could run it on whatever. There may be some limited security through obscurity benefit to running an OS so far off the beaten path. Like you, I'm dumbfounded by the achievement of Serenity OS. According to the Readme, Serenity OS is "a system by us, for us, based on the things we like." I don't know that making Serinity OS a daily driver for anyone who isn't interested in hacking on it is an actual goal for Andreas.
• heywire 5y ago
  Andreas’ excitement is infectious. I find myself sometimes smiling in an empty room watching his reaction to getting something working.
• MauranKilom 5y ago
  (Skip to 0:40 for initial performance, and to 56:00 for when it turns snappy.)