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Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

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309 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 08 Jan 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mysterydip ◴[08 Jan 25 18:02 UTC] No.42636747[source]▶
I love the serenityos concept (and ladybird browser) so I'm glad to see this progress!
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LeFantome ◴[08 Jan 25 19:14 UTC] No.42637449[source]▶
Me as well.

Sadly, they have parted ways at this point. Not only has Ladybird broken off into an independent project but it does not consider SerenityOS a target platform anymore.

Ladybird is slowly shedding a lot of the “home grown” Serenity layers and replacing them with more mainstream alternatives.

As I am primarily a Linux user, I am excited to see Ladybird become a real alternative on Linux. However, as a fan of SerenityOS as well, I am sad to see all the energy and innovation that was going into Ladybird get stripped out of SerenityOS.

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leidenfrost ◴[08 Jan 25 19:38 UTC] No.42637665[source]▶
I just with it retains the "hobby project with real programming practices first" vibe and not get carried away with the anxiety to compete with big Browsers.

Yes, I too want a third browser alternative. But if they sacrifice code quality for getting there fast, it will end up with the same fate as Firefox.

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1. fngjdflmdflg ◴[08 Jan 25 20:48 UTC] No.42638283[source]▶
They are vastly improving code quality by replacing first party libraries with third party ones. For example all the encryption libraries, media codecs etc. create a needlessly large attack surface (and general correctness surface) if you roll your own. That's why some of the first things they've started using are FFMPEG and OpenSSL.