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HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by bee_rider »

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #3

Post from 7 months ago with 210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519824

The complaints in the first post there really stood out when I looked at the screenshots on the HelloSystem site. I’m not saying what the complaints are, because I’m curious if they’ll be so obvious to somebody who isn’t primed to look for them. Could someone skip that thread and look directly at the HelloSystem site, then check and see if they also saw the issues in that post? It could be an interesting experiment.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by actionfromafar »

bee_rider wrote: post #5
nazgulsenpai wrote: post #3

Post from 7 months ago with 210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519824

The complaints in the first post there really stood out when I looked at the screenshots on the HelloSystem site. I’m not saying what the complaints are, because I’m curious if they’ll be so obvious to somebody who isn’t primed to look for them. Could someone skip that thread and look directly at the HelloSystem site, then check and see if they also saw the issues in that post? It could be an interesting experiment.

What’s the moratorium for posting a comment here?

20 minutes from now?

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by parasti »

bee_rider wrote: post #5
nazgulsenpai wrote: post #3

Post from 7 months ago with 210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519824

The complaints in the first post there really stood out when I looked at the screenshots on the HelloSystem site. I’m not saying what the complaints are, because I’m curious if they’ll be so obvious to somebody who isn’t primed to look for them. Could someone skip that thread and look directly at the HelloSystem site, then check and see if they also saw the issues in that post? It could be an interesting experiment.

That's literally the first thing I noticed in the screenshot on the website. Spacing in the UI is very inconsistent, almost the polar opposite of macOS aesthetic.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by lproven »

trollied wrote: post #2

The UI reminds me of RISC OS!

Allegedly, one of the Acorn OS developers quit and went to work for NeXT in Silicon Valley... and right afterwards, the test in-development version of NeXTstep suddenly had this Acorn Risc OS-like floating icon bar! NeXT also implemented app directories, where all the contents of an app, its resources and libraries and so on, are in a folder with a special magic name... another idea nicked from Acorn.

(Risc OS apps are called !Name; NeXTstep ones are called Name.app.)

Acorn Risc OS was also the first OS to have integrated, always-on font antialiasing, next seen in NeXTstep, and the first to have full-window drag.

Source: a retrospective meetup of the surviving developers, which I moderated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SDL0IwbCc&t=2s

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