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Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!
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Basis, components and direction of helloSystem #159

Closed grahamperrin closed 3 years ago

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelcome-technologies first and second paragraphs:

… We are building minimalistic end-user appliances (embedded systems for the desktop, possibly for media consumption devices and other form factors) that happen to use a Linux kernel as its hardware abstraction layer, but otherwise has not much in common with a "Linux distribution".

In fact, we may even want to use another kernel such as FreeBSD. …

helloSystem does not use a Linux Kernel … and so on.

Other parts of the Welcome and unwelcome technologies page may be outdated or incomplete.

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Components#core-os

  • … FreeBSD was chosen

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/52 can be closed.

Also, maybe close https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/37 – thoughts on the underlying system are not expected to change the choice of FreeBSD as the basis.

  • … The helloSystem Live ISO build system is based on FuryBSD, and helloSystem is using some code (initgfx) from NomadBSD. …

https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/16

It will be nice to have a roadmap, to include:

Thanks

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Parts of the Components page may be outdated.

For example, https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Components#utilities lists lumina-screenshot however:

probonopd commented 3 years ago 
No packages available to install matching 'screengrab' have been found in the repositories
grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

OK, lximage-qt for as long as users will be prevented from using superior applications.

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Note: That page reflects brainstorming of potential components for helloSystem. The components that have been decided on are marked with :arrow_right:. The Lumina components are still up for consideration.