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Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional. But it is 'just' a DE webapp right? From 'internet OS' here (which actually I

by OJFord 3y ago

Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional. But it is 'just' a DE webapp right? From 'internet OS' here (which actually I don't think you use at TFA repo) I expected to be able to boot to it. I guess there is some other solution that would allow that, but not a package deal? I suppose I'm just saying be careful/manage expectations with 'OS', but for what it actually is it's really cool.

mattl 3y ago
Yeah “OS” really overused.
- baudaux 3y ago
  But it is a great project. For a real (Unix-like) OS you can have a look to https://exaequOS.com https://exaequOS.com (I am the creator)
klyrs 3y ago
> Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional. No kidding. As far as I've seen, it's the best open paint app on android
lphnull 3y ago
This reminds me of something I made once in "Macromedia" Flash back when I was 16 in like 2001ish or so. It wasn't really an actual OS, but I managed to get a working desktop with a file browser, fake non functional web browser, and a task bar and start menu. My flash application didn't accomplish anything, but I felt immensely proud of having been able to create a mock up of a UI, even though it was extremely kludgy and wasn't even able to read or write files in the fake applications. ...No offense to the creator though. I don't mean to compare my high school project to this one. This project is indeed very cool! I too dream of one day inventing my own kind of spreadsheet and terminal hackery OS, so I salute this person for creating a proof of concept that looks good.
- Intralexical 3y ago
  Scratch OS is where it was at.
- dietr1ch 3y ago
  Here's the best flash OS that will ever exist, https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg
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Intralexical 3y ago
It's got an app store, and it seems to implement embedding, windowing, and a virtual filesystem for arbitrary apps that have been built for it. I.E., When you open "Polotno" (a graphics editor), or what appears to be VSCode, it opens in a windowed IFrame, but then going to "Save" pops up a file selection dialog controlled by Puter, which lets you create a "file" which can then be accessed by the "Open" button in any other app. It looks like there are other integrations between the DE/OS and its apps as well, like applications being able to set their window title dynamically (E.G. based on open file/tab), and an API allowing robust support for third-party apps. If you open one of the games like Doom, you'll see that it's usually hosted on a third-party site like DOS.Zone, but according to the query string using a custom build for Puter, which presumably has modifications to integrate with the desktop environment and filesystem. Other apps are hosted on Puter.site, . So if you treat the browser as the "hardware" (and maybe also the backend services hosting a lot of the apps), maybe you could call it an "OS" in that it abstracts and manages a single environment for multiple other programs to run simultaneously and share information with each other. I suppose `puter.js` is what passes for its LIBC, or the syscall interface: https://docs.puter.com/ https://docs.puter.com/ To OP: The information on publishing third-party apps doesn't seem very discoverable. The only mention I saw is in the popup that shows the first time you launch Dev Center, and after closing that I can neither find it again nor find anything else about it on Google (other than the linked terms, and the app IFrame source, which I presume is from GoogleBot's temporary account): https://puter.com/incentive-program-terms https://puter.com/incentive-program-terms

by OJFord 3y ago

mattl 3y ago

Yeah “OS” really overused.

baudaux 3y ago
But it is a great project. For a real (Unix-like) OS you can have a look to https://exaequOS.com https://exaequOS.com (I am the creator)

klyrs 3y ago

> Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional. No kidding. As far as I've seen, it's the best open paint app on android

lphnull 3y ago

This reminds me of something I made once in "Macromedia" Flash back when I was 16 in like 2001ish or so. It wasn't really an actual OS, but I managed to get a working desktop with a file browser, fake non functional web browser, and a task bar and start menu. My flash application didn't accomplish anything, but I felt immensely proud of having been able to create a mock up of a UI, even though it was extremely kludgy and wasn't even able to read or write files in the fake applications. ...No offense to the creator though. I don't mean to compare my high school project to this one. This project is indeed very cool! I too dream of one day inventing my own kind of spreadsheet and terminal hackery OS, so I salute this person for creating a proof of concept that looks good.

Intralexical 3y ago
Scratch OS is where it was at.
dietr1ch 3y ago
Here's the best flash OS that will ever exist, https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg

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Intralexical 3y ago

It's got an app store, and it seems to implement embedding, windowing, and a virtual filesystem for arbitrary apps that have been built for it. I.E., When you open "Polotno" (a graphics editor), or what appears to be VSCode, it opens in a windowed IFrame, but then going to "Save" pops up a file selection dialog controlled by Puter, which lets you create a "file" which can then be accessed by the "Open" button in any other app. It looks like there are other integrations between the DE/OS and its apps as well, like applications being able to set their window title dynamically (E.G. based on open file/tab), and an API allowing robust support for third-party apps. If you open one of the games like Doom, you'll see that it's usually hosted on a third-party site like DOS.Zone, but according to the query string using a custom build for Puter, which presumably has modifications to integrate with the desktop environment and filesystem. Other apps are hosted on Puter.site, . So if you treat the browser as the "hardware" (and maybe also the backend services hosting a lot of the apps), maybe you could call it an "OS" in that it abstracts and manages a single environment for multiple other programs to run simultaneously and share information with each other. I suppose `puter.js` is what passes for its LIBC, or the syscall interface: https://docs.puter.com/ https://docs.puter.com/ To OP: The information on publishing third-party apps doesn't seem very discoverable. The only mention I saw is in the popup that shows the first time you launch Dev Center, and after closing that I can neither find it again nor find anything else about it on Google (other than the linked terms, and the app IFrame source, which I presume is from GoogleBot's temporary account): https://puter.com/incentive-program-terms https://puter.com/incentive-program-terms