[HN Gopher] Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10
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       Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-10-16 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (genode.org)
        
       | still_grokking wrote:
       | It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out
       | there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity.
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       | It's really nice to see some progress there!
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       | Would be cool if someone would port a GUI environment like KDE. I
       | guess this could attract more people. Currently there isn't much
       | "to see". Most of the interesting parts are in the guts of this
       | system. An usable desktop could bring more people that want
       | tinker with with it I guess -- as OS dev is much more fun if you
       | don't have to try out every change in a VM.
        
         | snvzz wrote:
         | Genode Sculpt has a modern webbrowser and hardware video
         | acceleration.
         | 
         | It also has VirtualBox, so it can be used for day by day
         | computing by running Linux for misc tasks in a VM, and the
         | developers absolutely do dogfood it.
         | 
         | I doubt porting KDE (which isn't at all made for a system
         | centered around the capability model) would be a good use of
         | Genode team's time.
        
       | mikewarot wrote:
       | I _strongly_ believe that capability based systems like this are
       | the only way out of the security abyss we inhabit, and are also a
       | required step if we ever want to stop losing the war on general
       | purpose computing.
       | 
       | All of that said, I can't see a path forward to using this as a
       | daily driver for myself. I'm not versed enough in C and Linux
       | systems to deal with the complexity. It keeps getting closer, I
       | can feel that happening... one day, for me, I expect it to
       | _click_ , and then I'll be onboard.
        
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