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helloSystem is not Airyx ?
helloSystem is not Airyx ?
Airyx™ is a new open-source desktop operating system that aims to provide a similar experience and compatibiilty with macOS® on x86-64 sytems. It builds on the solid foundations of FreeBSD, existing open source packages in the same space, and new code to fill the gaps. Airyx aims to feel sleek, stable, familiar and intuitive, handle your daily tasks, and provide as much compatibility as possible with the commercial OS that inspired it. …
And by the way a clone of Mac does exist from a very long time:
Now is:
Étoilé
Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind.etoileos.com
it does not seems to be a clone of Mac.
Because their goal is to "clone" what it is now called Cassic Mac OS; consider that project is almost 20yo.
GNUstep and OS Classic both came from NEXTStep, and both use COCOA API.
[FONT=monospace]grahamperrin[/FONT] I apologize for talking about something in the wrong place. I'll not let it happen again.
Not exactly the wrong place, but there's more knowledge about helloSystem in the helloSystem area
… answers may not apply to your product at all, …
I might be mistaken - I believe that was meant as friendly reminder that this forum is about FreeBSD and that there are places more knowledgeable about helloSystem (i.e. https://github.com/orgs/helloSystem/discussions).
Sure, this is "off-topic" and it's an interesting topic regardless; there's simply not many experts on it around here if you're asking technical questions.
Ha, now that you mention it - I didn't even realize that either.hadn't realised the discussion had jumped a year
I didn't mean to derail the conversation; I too find helloSystem quite intriguing and worthwhile. I can only imagine how much work it is to get just the code "on top" of FreeBSD built and maintained.
And I agree with the GUI paradigm statement - one of the core strengths would be to have one approach that works the same way across all apps.
That's certainly a drawback in FreeBSD and Linux at the moment. I'm wondering whether that means building "systemd for GUI" in the end?
Desktop Environment
- Contributors have started to port the helloSystem desktop environment, helloDesktop, to the FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection (see changelog at https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/r0.6.0 for details)
For me it worth the usage only if I can run the mac os x applications on top of it.
I can only imagine how much work it is to get just the code "on top" of FreeBSD built and maintained.
… ease of copying programs: you just needed to drag application icon (often a program was just one icon) to a new location or volume. That way you also could make a different set of configs for that same program. …
I have not watched the video that was linked from discussion 272.
One has to be careful about what one says these days, even in off-topic threads.
… I agree with the GUI paradigm statement - one of the core strengths would be to have one approach that works the same way across all apps. That's certainly a drawback in FreeBSD and Linux at the moment. …
ok. For me it worth the usage only if I can run the mac os x applications on top of it.
… a package manager should never be in the hands of an end user, …
We should probably remove pkg entirely from the system and only offer application bundles. …