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[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The story behind Senerenity OS is quite amazing:

It was October 2018 and I had just completed a 3-month rehab program at a state addiction clinic in Sweden. I was unemployed, staying with family, and had basically nothing going on.

With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long. I struggled to find activities to fill them. I enrolled in school for a while, but it wasn’t for me this time either. Eventually I turned to programming, since it’s always been my big interest in life.

Until that point, my career had been focused on web browsers (WebKit at Apple & Nokia). However, I had always been interested in low-level things so I began tinkering with some of that. I wrote a little ELF executable parser.. And an Ext2 filesystem browser.. And a little GUI framework with an event loop..

Out of this tinkering, an operating system began to take shape. I chose the name SerenityOS because I wanted to always remember the Serenity Prayer. I was quite worried about my future at the time, and I figured that this name would help me stay on the good path.

My general idea was to build my own dream system for daily use. It would be a combination of my two favorite computing paradigms: the 1990s GUI and the no-nonsense command-line of late-2000s Unix.

Source: https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-serenityos-full-time

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

The author was a guest on the Changelog podcast. The episode was an interesting one, I highly recommend it

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source: The serenity of building your own OS

Episode webpage: https://changelog.com/podcast/554

Media file: https://op3.dev/e/https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/podcast/554/the-changelog-554.mp3

[–] chunkyhairball@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I will never not be impressed with people who get themselves off drugs and have endless respect for that.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Sounds like Terry Davis but the good ending

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, so that's a proper *NIX system? A non-linux system? That's quite impressive!

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yes and they implement EVERYTHING in house. In case you haven't heard they also started implementing a browser engine from scratch https://ladybird.dev/ just for fun. It kinda took off and they even got some nice donations, just to keep it going and see where it leads.

The "founders" youtube channel is quit interesting. Especially the monthly update videos if you want to keep up to date with the latest developments. https://inv.tux.pizza/channel/UC3ts8coMP645hZw9JSD3pqQ

[–] stella@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yikes.

Building everything from scratch is one thing.

Maintaining it is completely different.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Wow, a whopping 100k from Shopify, that’s awesome!

[–] nix@merv.news 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the browser work yet? Can’t find screenshots

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

It's a work in progress. Most sites won't work but some do. Check out this latest development update video: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=giq5iXJntgQ&t=911 That link leads directly to the "demo segment" where he opens some sites.

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is it possible to run it in VM?

Edit: it’s meant to run on a vm. cool!

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Quite easy. It automatically starts in qemu when you build it.

[–] Streetdog@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Serenity now, insanity later.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I read "senility operating system" which is stupid and also probably the OS I have installed

[–] calmluck9349@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago
[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does it compare to TempleOS though?

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, so it's already corrupted by sin, I see

[–] guillermohs9@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

His coding videos are really nice to see. I don't even understand that much, as it's mostly C++, but the coding, the explanation, and the final feature and commit is somehow relaxing.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do groups insist on BSD/MIT/Apache style licensing...

[–] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here's why.

Because I like the 2-clause BSD license. I am not a fan of “copyleft” or forcing obligations on people in general. I want my software to be available for anyone who wants to use it.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He missed the entire point of copyleft which is a bit disappointing.

All well, at least it is libre. I respect his choice in the end as pressuring or forcing someone to use a copy left license us just as bad as proprietary software