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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

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Post by jhgb »

raggi wrote: post #27
billconan wrote: post #12

I'm curious, how can someone implement device drivers (without knowing hardware details.) for a self-made OS like this?

It seems to only target very commonly ported and generally understood hardware, and not many things. 32bit Intel, no arm. Bochs VBE and Intel graphics, e1000 and rtl8192 nics. They're very sensible targets as they'll let you run with event performance on most virtual machine platforms as they're commonly emulated and mature.

It would be cool to have something similar but specifically targeting Raspberry Pi these days. There you don't have a lot of variability either, and it might even turn out useful relative to its "bigger" (or "bloated"?) competitors.

Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

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Post by _qbjt »

o_p wrote: post #4

>I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. Whats with operating systems and religion

The majority of the human population is religious. Software is generally created by humans so it doesn’t seem unlikely that some of that influence would rub off on their work (same as any other work of art really).

Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

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Post by ksec »

>SerenityOS [1]

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

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Post by phaemon »

HideousKojima wrote: post #28
phaemon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to be pretty smart to write an OS, and only dumb people and smart people are religious. Atheism is the belief for mediocre minds. ;)

Just like yhe midwit meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2054904-iq-bell-curve-midwit

I'd not heard of that but it seems fairly accurate. It seems related to pg's idea of middle-brow dismissal.

Re: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

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Post by jagger27 »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #19
o_p wrote: post #4

>I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. Whats with operating systems and religion

I'm a relatively vocal atheist, but Serenity Prayer is a pretty useful/accepted creed to live by if you can get over the very first word, so I can't say it bothers me much; and while I realize there's one other OS that's much more explicitly religion-oriented, I'm not sure it's quite a significant pattern yet... "(God), give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the thi…

This is the version I'm familiar with:

    God, grant me the Serenity
    To accept the things I cannot change...
    Courage to change the things I can,
    And Wisdom to know the difference.
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