[HN Gopher] AaronOS
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AaronOS
Author : luke2m
Score : 115 points
Date : 2022-01-03 12:37 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (aaronos.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (aaronos.dev)
| marcodiego wrote:
| I tried eyeOS long time ago. A plan I never put forward was to
| use it as a UI to remotely control some device or give access to
| a few resources of the computer it was running on. Now that tor
| allows me to give a "universal" name for a machine, maybe I'll
| think again about doing that.
| rfraile wrote:
| EyeOS was developed around 15 years ago, when the internet
| enviroment was on the beginning of web2.0, so things were so
| different... Now, nearly all of those every day use programs
| have some sort of web application release or equivalent.
|
| It's something like WindowsCE who tried to move the workings of
| the desktop to the mobile instead of a fresh interpretation of
| the platform like Android did at their time.
| pkhodiyar wrote:
| I love 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing
| 171 such webDesktops that people made. AaronOS is a part of it
| wit proper attribution to original creator.
|
| Please have a look here, you will love it :
| https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS
| ashleyn wrote:
| Novice/young programmers seem to love making OS mockups as a
| first exercise. This phenomenon even predates web apps: I
| remember an entire scene consisting of MS-DOS GUIs made with
| QuickBasic. Hundreds of them - many clones of Windows 95 or Mac
| OS. There's a site that hosts a bunch of them still:
| http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/
| AaronAdams wrote:
| That's exactly how aOS started. Wasn't quite my first
| exercise, but was among the first few things I ever made.
|
| I have a little snapshot of how it looked back then, at
| https://aaronos.dev/AaronOS_Old/
| Minor49er wrote:
| I remember someone making one for an MS-DOS text mode game
| creation system called MegaZeux. They called it Airborne OS.
| It was spawned by the enthusiasm around Windows 95/98 at the
| time, though the result is rather wonky, especially if you're
| not used to how MegaZeux games typically operate. For
| example, the cursor is actually the player character and can
| only move with the arrow keys.
|
| 1999 version: https://www.digitalmzx.com/show.php?id=12
|
| 2000 version: https://www.digitalmzx.com/show.php?id=13
| Koshkin wrote:
| Also: http://www.virtualdesktop.org/
| AaronAdams wrote:
| I love collections like these. So cool to see what different
| people have done with the concept.
| luke2m wrote:
| That's a really cool collection.
| luciusdomitius wrote:
| Absolutely love it when people who don't know the difference
| between OS, DE and a shell start writing "OS"s :D
|
| Otherwise it is quite impressive given the circumstances.
| AaronAdams wrote:
| Haha, I experimented with a rebranding to aDE instead of aOS,
| but felt that it could get confused with actual Linux desktop
| environments.
|
| As time passes the "System" part of "OS" is beginning to feel
| more valid, at the least. 3rd-party app support, interconnected
| systems, etc.
|
| You're right though, certainly not an actual OS by any measure.
| BusyLurker3K wrote:
| Excellent reply to an obvious troll.
| Koshkin wrote:
| Looks nice, especially in the full screen mode. Not sure what
| this is for though. Anyone care to enlighten me?
| smt88 wrote:
| Mostly fun and entertainment.
|
| Browsers are resource hogs, and they mostly used to run
| antiquated JavaScript. Creating a responsive, nice-looking "OS"
| desktop in a browser is something akin to code golf. It's a
| demonstration of skill at least.
| johndubchak wrote:
| This is my first intro into such a thing - pretty cool...now
| how do I hack the kernel? LOL
| AaronAdams wrote:
| It's open source -- feel free to clone from github and hack
| away!
|
| Not quite sure that anything could be called a Kernel by
| any measure, but there's certainly a lot of stuff in there.
|
| Oh, and I apologize in advance for your loss of brain
| cells. Some of that code is around seven years old.
| AaronAdams wrote:
| The other comment is pretty much right on. It's a playground of
| sorts for me. Platform for the rest of my projects.
| AaronAdams wrote:
| How cool to see my project on here!
|
| Been working on it for roundabout seven years.
|
| If anyone's got questions, fire away!
| sebow wrote:
| Looks better & feels snappier than w11(which granted is a low
| bar).Not usually a fan of such web-based projects but this looks
| good, and it's not a full-on replica so points for originality
| aswell.
| AaronAdams wrote:
| Thank you for the compliments!
|
| Snappiness is definitely lent to the tiny scale of the project
| compared to Windows -- the entire thing is loaded to RAM!
| Though that's been changing in more recent updates.
| testudovictoria wrote:
| Web desktops usually aren't meant to be a true replacement of
| an actual OS. They tend to be long-tailed exercises that marry
| web development and desktop development.
| mrtweetyhack wrote:
| Dobbie03 wrote:
| Love the look. Would love if this was an installable OS :D
| AaronAdams wrote:
| I've experimented with running Chrome in Kiosk mode on system
| boot before, but it was never very convincing on the old
| systems I tested on.
|
| Aside that, an Electron app has been experimented with, but
| only the Music Player has actually been released standalone.
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