Airyx OS

Post by nix23 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

the_why_of_y wrote: post #126

gizdan wrote: post #112

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> It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her. I suppose FreeBSD made more sense as a base considering MacOS is derived from BSD.

FreeBSD differs quite substantially from the XNU kernel used by MacOS because XNU is based on Mach, and it was forked (Edit: from 4.3BSD) in 1988 - before Linux even existed. The XNU kernel does not have a stable syscall ABI so perhaps it doesn't matter if the syscalls are different because the implementation of libSystem can convert as appropriate in userspace (see also: WINE).

Post by forgotpwd16 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:50 AM UTC

orangeyjuicey wrote: post #113

shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

If any Hello devs are here, I just want to point out that I was interested in using their interface, until I noticed that the window titles are not centered based on the window but on the space between the window buttons and the window (this is on the website). That put me off the whole website (which is fast judgement on my part, but hey I've got stuff to do). Does anyone else here agree?

Post by rimliu » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:05 AM UTC

Accacin wrote: post #114

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?

I am not vegan because I do not like meat, I am vegan because I think that it bad for the environment and causes unnecessary suffering to animals. The fact that I could enjoy meat without any of those downsides is appealing to me :)

Post by trasz » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

gizdan wrote: post #112

eafer wrote: post #54

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> compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS) How far along is this? I think she's underestimating how hard it is to implement a modern filesystem that won't eat users' data. I've been working on a Linux APFS driver[0] for several years, and it's not fully functional yet. It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her. [0] https://github.com/eafer/linux-apfs-rw

> It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her. I suppose FreeBSD made more sense as a base considering MacOS is derived from BSD.

Post by wraptile » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

shapefrog wrote: post #59

This reminds me of vegan bacon. If you dont want to eat meat, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of eating meat? If you dont want to use macOS, why try and replicate the taste, texture and sensation of using macOS?