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

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Post by jagger27 » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

phaemon wrote: post #8

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

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. ;)

Care to expand on those bold assertions?

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

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Post by winter_blue » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

Wow, Andreas Kling is really inspiring.

I need to get my mental space together (from the ADHD mess that it currently is), and start working on some of software engineering projects/goals.

I really hope I can.

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

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Post by xacky » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

What's more is that it also has a full web browser that is not based on webkit/blink/gecko but its own independent engine.

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

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Post by tachyonbeam » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

FranchuFranchu wrote: post #32

Wow, that must be a really big milestone for SerenityOS. Not many hobby OSs end up making enough money for the developer to sustain himself.

Not many hobby projects of any kind for that matter. IMO he gets this kind of support not just because of the value added by SerenityOS itself, but because of the value he adds by making YouTube streams and other content. People feel like they can learn a lot about programming from him.

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

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Post by krapp » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

xacky wrote: post #43

What's more is that it also has a full web browser that is not based on webkit/blink/gecko but its own independent engine.

But I've been told by Hacker News multiple times that developing an independent browser is impossible without the means of a multi-million dollar corporation.

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

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Post by DC-3 » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

xacky wrote: post #43

What's more is that it also has a full web browser that is not based on webkit/blink/gecko but its own independent engine.

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!

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

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Post by tachyonbeam » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #45

xacky wrote: post #43

What's more is that it also has a full web browser that is not based on webkit/blink/gecko but its own independent engine.

But I've been told by Hacker News multiple times that developing an independent browser is impossible without the means of a multi-million dollar corporation.

I mean, it kind of is. You can make a basic browser, sure, but you'll have a hard time implementing video playback, canvas, JavaScript and everything else, while also delivering good performance and rendering everything accurately. Yes, I know his browser has JS support, but the performance is likely at least an order of magnitude slower than V8 or Firefox... And then there's CSS, and the fact that HTML, JS and CSS keep growing and having more functionality added every month. That's not to minimize his accomplishments, browsers are just immensely complex pieces of software. Complex enough that Opera killed their own browser engine because they didn't have the manpower to maintain it anymore, and are now using WebKit.

All of that being said, it all depends on your expectations. You can totally make a browser that is capable of going to web forums and posting on Hacker News, browsing the SerenityOS website and maybe even Wikipedia for instance. If you want to build something that supports pre-2005 HTML/JS, that's probably quite feasible.

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

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Post by ncmncm » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

What a great little project! Each bit adds to what came before.

Just don't be reluctant to delete code when its time has come, and it can continue improving indefinitely.

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

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Post by DC-3 » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #45

xacky wrote: post #43

What's more is that it also has a full web browser that is not based on webkit/blink/gecko but its own independent engine.

But I've been told by Hacker News multiple times that developing an independent browser is impossible without the means of a multi-million dollar corporation.

Eh, it kinda is. The Serenity browser has seen a huge amount of grassroots development work that most projects couldn't dream of and it's still quite a way off usable for what most people consider every-day browsing tasks.

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

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Fri, May 28, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #35

>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,…

It seems very interesting. Anyone has an idea whet the minimal system requirements are?