RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
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Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#2This looks like not a reskin of an existing FreeBSD or Linux windows system, but an actual reimplementation of macOS. Very interesting if they can pull it off!
I wonder though, why start with old Objective-C cocoa APIs instead of Swift?
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#3This is a great idea, but I think they'd be better off aiming for Linux.
One of the main benefits of macOS is perfect hardware support. Linux has a definite edge on all other free software kernels here.
I hope they succeed, regardless of technical decisions.
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#4I don't know why the mobile version crawls when I scroll past the images on my high-end Samsung.
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#5> built with our core technologies of Cocoa, Qt, and Mach
Does this mean a mach emulation layer on top of or in the freebsd kernel?
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#6I don't know why the mobile version crawls when I scroll past the images on my high-end Samsung.
Same with my Pixel 5 and FF mobile.
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#7Looks like this is a rebrand from the Airyx project that was posted before [1]
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#8This looks like not a reskin of an existing FreeBSD or Linux windows system, but an actual reimplementation of macOS. Very interesting if they can pull it off! I wonder though, why start with old Objective-C cocoa APIs instead of Swift?
The greater bulk of the macOS userland is still written in Objective-C.
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#9This is a great idea, but I think they'd be better off aiming for Linux. One of the main benefits of macOS is perfect hardware support. Linux has a definite edge on all other free software kernels here. I hope they succeed, regardless of technical decisions.
> One of the main benefits of macOS is perfect hardware support.
Insofar as you have perfect support for the very small subset of hardware that computers running macOS can have. I'm sure you could get similarly perfect hardware support on Linux by being careful about which hardware you run it on.