The more I see those small graphical OSes like this one, Kolibri, etc. the more I wish they were ported (or better conceived from the beginning) to be run on ARM systems. Those small cheap boards with video output would find the best possible companion when bare metal programming is too hard and a full fledged Linux distro would be overkill. Give me a compiler, then libraries for gpio and hardware, GUI, low level networking, etc. and I can choose between a huge load of cheap boards to build a lab instrument panel, my new home IoT dashboard, a portable communication device, a music synthesizer, etc. It looks to me as those two worlds are in need of each other but they don't know that yet.
I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
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Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#152Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional. Glad to see it make a comeback.
I also like those a lot, especially, Windows 2000, but the thing is that their aesthetic is also tied up in my memory with the period in my life when I was exposed to that interface, things I went through, hopes and aspirations and challenges and feelings... people didn't live through the 1990s or early 2000s don't have any of that emotional overlay; it's just another UI style for them.
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#153Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional. Glad to see it make a comeback.
i think it was specifically win2k that got it right. the 9x series still felt a bit clunky, even at the time.
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any specific video you would recommend that highlights his thoughts on life as a software engineer?
Not the person you're replying too, but I think you might find this video [0] interesting. He's describing his motivations and worries around making a web browser for SerenityOS. A quote from that video (3:25) really stuck with me. He describes how he saw people joking online that the web-standards are so insane that it's impossible to build a new web-browser: "The way I respond to that type of energy is to just real…
These are high praises and more than enough impetus to watch Andreas’ videos and check out SerenityOS. Thank you, all.
From tfa:
> With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long.
Is honest, resonant, and bodes well, but it’ll be work to convince myself this [0] is more like ol’ skool X than ~WinNT circa 2000 — it’s not making me serene atm.
[0] https://awesomekling.github.io/assets/writing-this-post.png
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
That style is a bit too brutalist for my tastes. I prefer a splash of color, like with BeOS or something like that.
Windows did have color accents, like the dark blue selection, it's just a bit muted and stale by modern standards. It's a good idea to keep the chrome be chrome-like so color can be reserved for meaningful elements (like red for warning, green for safe, blue for selection etc.). Notice that although end-user apps are all colorful and fancy these days, that most pro apps have remained very conservative, erring to ligh…
Except programming apps and IDE’s?
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#156Haven't heard of this project till seeing this post.
Checked out his youtube channel and the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch if you've ever wondered what its like to port software.
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#157The more I see those small graphical OSes like this one, Kolibri, etc. the more I wish they were ported (or better conceived from the beginning) to be run on ARM systems. Those small cheap boards with video output would find the best possible companion when bare metal programming is too hard and a full fledged Linux distro would be overkill. Give me a compiler, then libraries for gpio and hardware, GUI, low level net…
There's always Arch Linux ARM, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and RiscOS. They all run on a Raspberry Pi 4.
What are you looking for that those aren't covering?
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#158Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional. Glad to see it make a comeback.
i think it was specifically win2k that got it right. the 9x series still felt a bit clunky, even at the time.
Rebooting everytime you changed a setting in 9X got annoying pretty fast.
Win2k brought the NT kernel to the masses, which was a huge improvement. True multi-user support, for starters.
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#159The more I see those small graphical OSes like this one, Kolibri, etc. the more I wish they were ported (or better conceived from the beginning) to be run on ARM systems. Those small cheap boards with video output would find the best possible companion when bare metal programming is too hard and a full fledged Linux distro would be overkill. Give me a compiler, then libraries for gpio and hardware, GUI, low level net…
Linux had all sorts of 386isms at the beginning.
Having watched this project for a bit it probably will gain an ARM port in the next year or two.
Since there is already a emulator, it will probably gain the ability to run x86 serenity OS apps at some point after that.
Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless anyone can name a counter example it's probably the most advanced open source browser engine except for the WebKit family, the Gecko family, and NetSurf. Never mind the whole OS - that alone is worthy of Andreas being able to work full time on the project!
Arachne
Fantastic :)