What about hellosystem ? Ravyn focuses more on compatibility with MacOS I guess ?
RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
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Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Brew is a workaround for not having a proper package manager on macOS. Can't you use the native package manager instead?
I have used brew on Linux for dev tooling, because it’s so easy to switch versions.
I realized Brew was released for Linux a while back, and my jaw dropped because… why? Brew is simply awful compared to most Linux package managers. It has gotten better over the years but I still couldn’t ever imagine preferring it over the installed out of the box package manager in quite literally any Linux distro.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#23> ravynOS (previously called airyxOS) Subjectively, I find both names terrible. There’s zero chance I’ll vocalise either to someone and they’ll know how to spell it. The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”. But the idea is interesting, and even though the screenshots don’t yet inspire confidence (the typeface is too thin, folder icons are too square, …) I wish the team the best of luck…
I don't like either name as well, but if it does what it is meant to do, I won't mind.
It’s not just a case of liking names, they should also be functional¹ in terms of spreadability. If this OS eventually does what it is meant to do, I will want to tell people about it and get them to try it.
When making a recommendation in a social setting, there’s a tiny window to get the other person interested in whatever you’re suggesting they watch/play/try. If the name is hard to understand, difficult to remember, or they have to take out a phone to write it down, it’s causing friction that makes them less likely to follow through.
¹ A sign of good design.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#24Maybe this is just me but I never considered Apples approach to software installs to be elegant. And I’m not a fan of their unified menu bar (or most aspected of their desktop environment for that matter).
What I’d love to see would be a whole new desktop environment for macOS (homebrew has its warts but is a “good enough” package manager for my day to day needs)
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#25> ravynOS (previously called airyxOS) Subjectively, I find both names terrible. There’s zero chance I’ll vocalise either to someone and they’ll know how to spell it. The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”. But the idea is interesting, and even though the screenshots don’t yet inspire confidence (the typeface is too thin, folder icons are too square, …) I wish the team the best of luck…
I did a double take when I saw the name because ravynMS was the name I chose for my "company" as a 12 year old developer in 1997.
12 year old me would have given the name two thumbs up.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have used brew on Linux for dev tooling, because it’s so easy to switch versions.
I realized Brew was released for Linux a while back, and my jaw dropped because… why? Brew is simply awful compared to most Linux package managers. It has gotten better over the years but I still couldn’t ever imagine preferring it over the installed out of the box package manager in quite literally any Linux distro.
Sometimes you can’t use a distro’s package manager (e.g. shared hosting) but Homebrew will still work.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't like either name as well, but if it does what it is meant to do, I won't mind.
It’s not just a case of liking names, they should also be functional ¹ in terms of spreadability. If this OS eventually does what it is meant to do, I will want to tell people about it and get them to try it. When making a recommendation in a social setting, there’s a tiny window to get the other person interested in whatever you’re suggesting they watch/play/try. If the name is hard to understand, difficult to remem…
I think you’re going a bit overboard. Telling someone “raven with a y instead of an e” isn’t THAT difficult to convey or remember.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#28> ravynOS (previously called airyxOS) Subjectively, I find both names terrible. There’s zero chance I’ll vocalise either to someone and they’ll know how to spell it. The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”. But the idea is interesting, and even though the screenshots don’t yet inspire confidence (the typeface is too thin, folder icons are too square, …) I wish the team the best of luck…
It's not a joke that one of the hardest problems is naming things. So many promising products and businesses shoot themselves in the foot by choosing a name that hurts adoption.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#29Maybe this is just me but I never considered Apples approach to software installs to be elegant. And I’m not a fan of their unified menu bar (or most aspected of their desktop environment for that matter). What I’d love to see would be a whole new desktop environment for macOS (homebrew has its warts but is a “good enough” package manager for my day to day needs)
I do like it. Its easy to explain to my mom how this work because is what most users would consider a software install.
Re: RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
#30> ravynOS (previously called airyxOS) Subjectively, I find both names terrible. There’s zero chance I’ll vocalise either to someone and they’ll know how to spell it. The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”. But the idea is interesting, and even though the screenshots don’t yet inspire confidence (the typeface is too thin, folder icons are too square, …) I wish the team the best of luck…
It is still in pre-release and being worked out. It doesn't run in VirtualBox or VMWare because there is no driver for video on it for the virtual machines.
Can’t you tell VMware that it’s a FreeBSD installation?