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AaronAdams

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About AaronAdams

Developer of aaronos.dev.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29792366

    Some browsers I've used prevent you from loading the same page within itself -- likely some kind of recursion protection. I've tended to get around this by adding a query to the UR…

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    Comment #29785554

    AaronOS dev here. I love the work he did on this, and that mine is considered a source of inspiration. One thing is certain when comparing the two - I have a LOT to learn from this…

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    Comment #29784918

    That's exactly how aOS started. Wasn't quite my first exercise, but was among the first few things I ever made. I have a little snapshot of how it looked back then, at https://aaro…

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    Comment #29784540

    It's open source -- feel free to clone from github and hack away! Not quite sure that anything could be called a Kernel by any measure, but there's certainly a lot of stuff in ther…

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    Comment #29784480

    I've experimented with running Chrome in Kiosk mode on system boot before, but it was never very convincing on the old systems I tested on. Aside that, an Electron app has been exp…

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    Comment #29784352

    I love collections like these. So cool to see what different people have done with the concept.

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    Comment #29784331

    Thank you for the compliments! Snappiness is definitely lent to the tiny scale of the project compared to Windows -- the entire thing is loaded to RAM! Though that's been changing …

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    Comment #29784297

    Haha, I experimented with a rebranding to aDE instead of aOS, but felt that it could get confused with actual Linux desktop environments. As time passes the "System" part of "OS" i…

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    Comment #29784263

    The other comment is pretty much right on. It's a playground of sorts for me. Platform for the rest of my projects.

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    Comment #29784255

    How cool to see my project on here! Been working on it for roundabout seven years. If anyone's got questions, fire away!