The 4th Year of SerenityOS • Hacker News Board

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by squarefoot » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:02 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #131

squarefoot wrote: post #107

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If ported to ARM it could become quite a thing in embedded development. I'm not thinking about the latest Macs (although... why not?) but rather very small and cheap embedded boards where Linux could be either too resource hungry or overkill. On these small boards a very light GUI oriented OS like SerenityOS and a set of gfx libraries and primitives could be the right tools to make appliance control panels, instrumen…

It would basically be what QNX could've been (and almost was).

Yes and, most importantly, Open Source.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by nix23 » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

jbirer wrote: post #100

phist_mcgee wrote: post #82

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Ironically, by using modern tools.

Modern tools are good, but the culture around it is pretty toxic, and in my own opinion, cringy. 10 years ago you would get booed for saying things like "Unused RAM is wasted ram, so let's build this in Electron". I am happy to see a pushback.

>Unused RAM is wasted ram,

Sorry but you get that wrong, that's just meant for file buffer and caches etc. NOT actually bloat.

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by abiloe » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

BirAdam wrote: post #99

abiloe wrote: post #93

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> we are in a world where open source is the way. I think you're in a bubble. The world still runs primarily on closed source and proprietary software and services.

Linux, Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, Chrome, Firefox, various open source NoSQL DBs, NodeJS, Python, RoR… most software is definitely open source. There are the Oracles, z/OS, and MS products and some SaaS stuff, but open source is eating the Earth.

Lol, are you trying to make a convincing argument? And if not, why bother replying with such nonsense. That short list provided is not "most software", thats a smattering of infrastructure type software.

If you're into idiotic discourse, go ahead and list 1000 open source projects on SourceForge just to "strengthen" your argument.

Tell me - what do most people in industry use for: image editing, video editing, audio and sound design, CAD, EDA, ERP, EMR, logistics, finance - you know actually getting stuff done with those things you mentioned above? Never mind that the vast majority of software written is line of business software.

The landscape of free/open source software has not changed much since the 90s. The market share has increased, some of the names have changed, but it's still the same types of stuff that it excels at (languages, OSes, frameworks).

Re: The 4th Year of SerenityOS

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Post by BirAdam » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

abiloe wrote: post #143

BirAdam wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux, Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, Chrome, Firefox, various open source NoSQL DBs, NodeJS, Python, RoR… most software is definitely open source. There are the Oracles, z/OS, and MS products and some SaaS stuff, but open source is eating the Earth.

Lol, are you trying to make a convincing argument? And if not, why bother replying with such nonsense. That short list provided is not "most software", thats a smattering of infrastructure type software. If you're into idiotic discourse, go ahead and list 1000 open source projects on SourceForge just to "strengthen" your argument. Tell me - what do most people in industry use for: image editing, video editing, audio…

We would need to define the terms in order to have proper debate on this. Are we talking number of projects, lines of code, install base, user base, profit generated, or some combination of all of it? My argument is largely based upon loc in installed base.