I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...
HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
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Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#12The UI reminds me of RISC OS!
Allegedly, one of the Acorn OS developers quit and went to work for NeXT in Silicon Valley... and right afterwards, the test in-development version of NeXTstep suddenly had this Acorn Risc OS-like floating icon bar! NeXT also implemented app directories, where all the contents of an app, its resources and libraries and so on, are in a folder with a special magic name... another idea nicked from Acorn. (Risc OS apps a…
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Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#13The UI reminds me of RISC OS!
Allegedly, one of the Acorn OS developers quit and went to work for NeXT in Silicon Valley... and right afterwards, the test in-development version of NeXTstep suddenly had this Acorn Risc OS-like floating icon bar! NeXT also implemented app directories, where all the contents of an app, its resources and libraries and so on, are in a folder with a special magic name... another idea nicked from Acorn. (Risc OS apps a…
somewhat related to the directories:
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#14I'm not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple's gonna get big mad about the branding, aren't they? They're basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#15Contribute to GNUStep if you want to support a legitimate transition for Mac users.
Not yet another aqua rip off distro running reskinned Mate.
Just get FreeBSD with gnome or mate if you’re so inclined.
If you’re using Hello as your daily driver, you’re gonna get your hands dirty getting things to work anyway. Might as well start from core.
GhostBSD, MidnightBSD, TrueOS, haven’t people realized FreeBSD is too obscure to get a community led distro to gain traction?
Ubuntu is the use case for “mere mortals” on Unix-like systems. Anyone tech savvy enough to use FreeBSD on a personally machine successfully (whoever you are) doesn’t need some pre rolled version.
It’s a niche use case and this project will ultimately go nowhere.
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#16I'm not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple's gonna get big mad about the branding, aren't they? They're basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#17I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...
Heh my dream was a real-time generative overlay on top of Dwarf Fortress ASCII art.
(That was before the Steam version ofc.)
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#18See also Elementary OS and its Pantheon desktop environment.
Has ElementaryOS gotten their staff problems fixed yet?
I’m also annoyed that they don’t go for Objective C which could make a lot of seasoned Apple developers comfortable, but instead went for a custom language.
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#19I'm not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple's gonna get big mad about the branding, aren't they? They're basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
As much as I disagree with OP, copyright law is not trademark law.
Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
#20I'm not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple's gonna get big mad about the branding, aren't they? They're basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
Do you think Apple BSD licensed the iconic Macintosh "hello" image or something?
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/24/apple-launched-ma...