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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 jagger27 »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #50
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?

It runs pretty well on a Pentium 4. I wrote the Starfield screensaver for Serenity (poorly) and it pegs the P4, for what it's worth. It's runs great in QEMU on any modern CPU.

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

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Post by phaemon »

jagger27 wrote: post #70
phaemon wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you consider bold about the assertions so it's difficult to expand. I am certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I'm religious, so that provides at least circumstantial evidence for my initial statement. Do you think I should consider that atheists could be dumb too? Most of the ones I've spoken to seem fairly convinced that they're reasonably smart.

Alright it's clear you're only here to rile people up. Not sure why you think that's appropriate here.

It's appropriate because it will improve your thinking to consider that I might just be right.

Edit: I happened to see your response since deleted. Don't worry, I'm not offended. I will say that HN at its best invites intellectual exploration. Take all your comments in this thread and look at them. What thoughts did you provoke? What did you add?

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

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Post by krapp »

tachyonbeam wrote: post #69
adenozine wrote: post #53

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Just a nitpick, but I'm pretty sure Opera was gutted of engineers as well after their acquisition fiasco with that Chinese outfit. I don't think they had as much manpower as the good ol days AND not enough manpower to compete with the old engine. I'm on mobile or I'd go find a source, but I'm fairly certain some key people left before all that went down. Not that maintaining a web browser is easy, but they WERE doing…

It's not just Opera though. Microsoft Edge is using also Webkit. I'm legit worried that if Mozilla ever tanks, we could have a complete WebKit browser monoculture.

>I'm legit worried that if Mozilla ever tanks, we could have a complete WebKit browser monoculture.

Does that really matter much, if it's open source? A lot of software converges on one or a few standard libraries or applications.

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

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Post by badthingfactory »

rogerclark wrote: post #58
tachyonbeam wrote: post #47

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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 k…

In the span of about 2 years, the Serenity browser has gone from nothing to where it is now. It already supports JavaScript and the canvas API. Do you think you could build this in 2 years? The answer is yes, you could.

I think this is where the ninety-ninety rule is typically invoked.

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

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Post by llaolleh »

nightowl_games wrote: post #25

Andreas is the best part about this project. He's just _nice_. He's a good person. It makes me want to contribute and work with him because I feel like I'll learn from him. Too many elite programmers are total jerks!

Kindness goes a long way. One kind thing someone does stays with you for a very long time.

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

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Post by Cyberdog »

HideousKojima wrote: post #23
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

Don't go hating on my boy Terry (pbuh): "The got rid of CD/DVD. they are coming for our guns."

"You know the secret? The difference between heaven and hell? It's, like, doing your work. You feel really shitty if you don't do your work. If you do your work, it's fucking awesome."

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

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Post by DC-3 »

zamadatix wrote: post #74
DC-3 wrote: post #46

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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!

Not to make it sound any less impressive (because it truly is an amazing effort) but it's basically first place there simply because the criteria excludes every other like engine better and there is no remaining option that's worse. Well technically (the now deprecated) KHTML is missing many of the things now supported but that spawned the "WebKit Family" so I don't think that counts (and it supports other things Ser…

I see your point. I guess I was trying to make the point (that perhaps everyone on HN is already aware of) that there really is an incredibly limited number of active browser projects even marginally capable of being used for the modern web so any new one deserves huge support.
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