[HN Gopher] Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10 ___________________________________________________________________ Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10 Author : todsacerdoti Score : 44 points Date : 2021-10-16 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (genode.org) (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. | | It's really nice to see some progress there! | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-16 23:00 UTC)