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Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

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Re: Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

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Post by Gualdrapo »

rasengan wrote: post #2

I really think this is impressive. I also like the unique take on windowing. There's a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxt-tQ5BtM Great job!

I recall KDE4 had sort of the same feature, tabbing windows. Haiku has a similar approach too. Though here they're taking it a little step further.

Was more impressed with the USB unplug/replug thing and the "live update" on renaming files. Pretty cool.

Re: Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

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Post by yeetaccount4 »

This reminds me of an OS built with asm for Dell desktop PC’s around 2005-ish. The DE had most things you’d expect from a Linux distro at the time, including true transparency (IIRC), and the whole thing fit on a floppy. Saw it in a Linux mag at the time.

Re: Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

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Post by robsalasco »

yeetaccount4 wrote: post #7

This reminds me of an OS built with asm for Dell desktop PC’s around 2005-ish. The DE had most things you’d expect from a Linux distro at the time, including true transparency (IIRC), and the whole thing fit on a floppy. Saw it in a Linux mag at the time.

http://menuetos.net

Re: Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

rasengan wrote: post #2

I really think this is impressive. I also like the unique take on windowing. There's a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxt-tQ5BtM Great job!

The "open a window and then put an application in it" thing reminds me of Plan 9; in that case, IIRC, you open windows and they start as a terminal, but if you execute anything else the new program just "inherits" the same window.
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