HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

Another project in this ecosystem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ravynos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ravynos.com&#x2F;</a>

About 20 years ago I was an openbsd and freebsd admin, webhosting mostly. Then the rest of my maybe 16 year career was debian with some sprinkles of centos&#x2F;rhel<p>What would bring me to bsd today? Not in a negative way at all, I&#x27;m curious what people love about it. I barely remember much about it. I loved pf over iptables but I don&#x27;t remember why. It has jailed containers which.. I think people still love? I&#x27;m not sure.<p>I&#x27;m reading about appjails and these sound interesting.

I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I&#x27;d expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I&#x27;m primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...

Post from 7 months ago with 210 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34519824">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34519824</a>

i don&#x27;t know why people wan&#x27;t to keep cloning osx, it might looks nice, but time has proven its a quite unproductive gui

I love FreeBSD on personal servers and workstations. But lean into FreeBSD not into macOS look and feel. The m2 macs make it the best workstation out there. If you have that there is no business need for this os.<p>Run it for fun but it’s never going to reach mass appeal

What are advantages of FreeBSD over Linux for example?<p>I mostly used Linux with mostly joy and some frustration, but never FreeBSD. I do use Mac, but I don&#x27;t think it can be translated, or can it?

&gt; Not a clone of anything, but something with which the long-time Mac user should feel instantly comfortable.<p>The longer I look at the screenshot, the cheekier this advertising seems.

&gt; On GNU-style systems (e.g., most Linux distributions), status=progress does not work and can be left away.<p>This isn’t really an accurate claim. How strange.

I tested helloSystem when it was still new and beta. It was buggy but it showed great potential. I will try it again tomorrow, I guess a lot has changed (for the better)<p>I love the idea of FreeBSD on a desktop (or laptop), and stock FreeBSD has always been troublesome to get working nicely on a laptop (at least for me)

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LLqWMRrRaZs?si=xbov8X9Z6bmqELG9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LLqWMRrRaZs?si=xbov8X9Z6bmqELG9</a><p>I wonder what it&#x27;d be like on a tablet.

See also Elementary OS and its Pantheon desktop environment.

The UI reminds me of RISC OS!

Seems to be KDE on top of FreeBSD?

I&#x27;m not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple&#x27;s gonna get big mad about the branding, aren&#x27;t they? They&#x27;re basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.

Contribute to GNUStep if you want to support a legitimate transition for Mac users.<p>Not yet another aqua rip off distro running reskinned Mate.<p>Just get FreeBSD with gnome or mate if you’re so inclined.<p>If you’re using Hello as your daily driver, you’re gonna get your hands dirty getting things to work anyway. Might as well start from core.<p>GhostBSD, MidnightBSD, TrueOS, haven’t people realized FreeBSD is too obscure to get a community led distro to gain traction?<p>Ubuntu is the use case for “mere mortals” on Unix-like systems. Anyone tech savvy enough to use FreeBSD on a personally machine successfully (whoever you are) doesn’t need some pre rolled version.<p>It’s a niche use case and this project will ultimately go nowhere.