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That's one hell of a great landing page. It tells me pretty much everything I want to know. - Beautiful screenshot. - "Essence will happily run on low-powe
by karmakaze 3y ago
That's one hell of a great landing page. It tells me pretty much everything I want to know.
- Beautiful screenshot.
- "Essence will happily run on low-powered hardware.
It can take less than 30MB of drive space, and boot with even less RAM.
No tasks run in the background, giving your applications all the space they need."
- Amazing performance.
- All the code is made available under the MIT license.
- Demo video.
I can immediately imagine many different ways this could be popular in areas not covered by the main desktop OSes. The only other thing I guess I want to know is the developer toolchain/experience and "getting started" which is covered by Discord/Patreon links.
I think it would do well to differentiate it from current desktop OSes, e.g. first class support for touch interfaces, etc. Imagine all the IoT devices needing UIs.
- Apocryphon 3y agoDefinitely. There's too many '00s distro pages I've seen that hide away the screenshots away from the front page, almost as if they're afraid to show off their system.
- vmfunction 3y ago> developer toolchain/experience and It was covered a bit in the video. Very nice way for user/designer to theme their own desktop.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThis combination of features makes this platform quite interesting for embedded applications. If the window management API is any good, I think this system could make for quite a decent embedded control system. I bet you could compile this into WASM and get quite a good web UI with it's fake windowing system.