HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture

• hello

  46 2,257 4.2

  Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!

  

I am very attracted to this idea. I want a clean desktop daily driver that prioritizes UX.

I love many of the UX-focused priorities, but a much larger % of their priorities such as Linux vs FreeBSD aren't high for me and don't seem end-user focused.

An interesting idea I had never thought to question was considering "App Stores" as package managers.

"Package managers for end-user applications: Those are aimed at "managing the system", whereas everything that is to be managed on our system can be managed in the file manager and/or other GUI elements. --> Use package managers to produce a system image, which is considered immutable for the end user (like on almost every embedded system/software appliance)"

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelc...

Good food for thought. Elsewhere they criticize App Stores for their commercial and centralized aspects. But I don't really see an issue with Ubuntu's App Store. It is just a GUI instead of only offering CLI, right?

• website

  71 37 8.6 HTML

  The Haiku website. (Pull requests are accepted; please file issues at https://dev.haiku-os.org). (by haiku)

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• website

  186 1,229 9.5 PHP

  The elementary.io website (by elementary)

  

I feel like elementaryOS [0] comes a lot closer to the original mac vision when it comes to UX.

Too bad the project is going through some drama from what I understand.

[0] https://elementary.io/

• mlvwm

  7 248 0.0 C

  Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (official repo)

• Platinum9

  6 419 0.0

  Mac OS 9 Theme for Xubuntu

Funnily enough I was playing with a couple of old PowerMac G4s a couple of weeks ago (actually wiping them for disposal - though I've since decided to keep at least one!)

I realised very quickly that I'd forgotten how good the OS9 interface is, and how well it stands up against today's offerings. Trying out a lookalike them on Linux [1] is definitely on my todo list:

[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Platinum9

• cloudabi

  2 129 10.0 C

  Definitions for the CloudABI data types and system calls

  

There used to be an alternative runtime for FreeBSD called CloudABI [1], with which native programs could be started in capability mode, but it was discontinued in favour of WASI [2] (server-side Webassembly) — which adopted CloudABI's libc API.

0: <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/>

1: <https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi>

2: <https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI>

• WASI

  45 4,582 7.0 Rust

  WebAssembly System Interface

  

There used to be an alternative runtime for FreeBSD called CloudABI [1], with which native programs could be started in capability mode, but it was discontinued in favour of WASI [2] (server-side Webassembly) — which adopted CloudABI's libc API.

0: <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/>

1: <https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi>

2: <https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI>

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• WinObjC

  8 6,229 0.0 C

  Objective-C for Windows

  

Ok, I'm very much paraphrasing from "shit I read on Wikipedia", but WinObjC does exist and it did use parts of GNUStep: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/issues/116

• darling

  116 11,029 8.3 Objective-C

  Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

  

Well, there is the Darling project. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

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