Introduction to SerenityOS Programming

Re:Introduction to SerenityOS Programming by asveikau on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:23AM (#22481405)

> That said, jcs@ from the OpenBSD project has been working on a port of the entire Serenity desktop environment to OpenBSD: https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1224205573656322048

Wow. That looks pretty awesome. Your gui aesthetic is pretty 90s in the best way possible, and combined with OpenBSD underneath this looks like it has potential to be a seriously no nonsense system.

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Re:Introduction to SerenityOS Programming by akling on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:07AM (#22481980)

Hi asveikau! Yeah, it's a nice glimpse of one possible future. :)

I'm gonna keep building the custom SerenityOS kernel of course, since it offers extreme productivity and integration opportunities that would be a lot harder to explore with a foreign kernel at the moment.

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Re:Introduction to SerenityOS Programming by asveikau on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:56PM (#22487989)

At a time when I had more spare time vs. today I was also hacking on my own kernel, so I definitely understand the drive to do that. (And congratulate you for pulling it off.)

But OpenBSD is a great kernel and user mode, all around. For context on my own biases, usually when discussions of desktop environments occur around here I am defending X, because it isn't as bad as people say. But seeing the combination of OBSD and your UI I am like... Yes, that looks like a feasible system that is not X.

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