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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 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 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yikes.

Building everything from scratch is one thing.

Maintaining it is completely different.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

tried it out in a VM, I was truly impressed by that browser.

I mean, sure, lots of pages don't work, but lots of pages DOES work on it, with no issues.

Never seen this on any custom, "built in" browser of an alternative OS.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

The browser was at first only available in serentyOS itself but lately is available as a stand alone program running on other OSs as well. It's still pretty early days, I am exited to see where all this leads tho!

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

Does the browser work yet? Can’t find screenshots

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year 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.