What are /g/'s thoughts on Ares OS?

It is sort of like an onion os, made from many layers:

- Helios: A microkernel at the heart of Ares

- Mercury: A driver framework for Ares

- Venus: A collection of drivers

- Gaia: an userspace programming environment

+ Luna: POSIX compatibility layer (optional)



These all together form the Ares OS, which will be a high level OS with a package manager, wayland support and more!



One of the more interesting features of Ares OS, is that it doesn't have a monolithic kernel.

Instead, drivers are running in userspace with the help of the capability system. A neat thing is also that all processes will inherit drivers from their parents, which means that a parent can re-implement a driver capability for it's child processes, allowing for advanced sand boxing and also running multiple Ares operating systems in one, without using virtualization! Neat, huh?



See https://ares-os.org/

Currently, helios is apparently almost done, and mercury is being worked on. Work just started on Gaia.

Also see video related, it is a shell on the mercury layer. Pretty cool, huh?

>>93017860 (OP)

I think it's the greatest!!!!

OP, title was forgotten!

Simply the best ukernel we could hope for

>>93017860 (OP)

how do I play porn on mpv on this shit?

Arse os

big if true

Bump

Write the userland, a browser and port some DE

Alternatively just wait hard for 2 years

only two years? Drew sure is hard working

I ballpark estimate two years considering he's pretty prolific programmmer

Helios + mercury took 9months

Now his working on drivers and some userspace

He ported Helios in like a month on raspberry pi + framebuffer for displaying slides at fosdem 



Wayland porting is planned, considering his experience on Wayland it will be pretty fast 





In the same time he also continue devoloping his sourchut and alpine Linux 

If I were his doctor I would suggest him to slow the fuck down honestly

>If I were his doctor I would suggest him to slow the fuck down honestly

For real. How does he do it? Drugs? I also see he does coding in VR for up to 8 hours a day. That can't be healthy at all. Do you think he has trouble navigating the real world because of it?

I don't know for sure. I think it's a combination of him being a undeniably smart individual and not being comfortable in real world. Seeing his presentation at fosdem, I think he doesn't have major mental issues but he didn't look like a joyful person



I also think his biggest ability is to recognize good ideas, Helios is a "fork" of seL4, the userland will be Plan 9 inspired, Wayland for graphics and so on 

That's why the developement is as speed as it is imo

Ares is the most promising toyOS.

This. it's awesum

looks interesting, I am very happy that OS technology is finally entering 90s

>>93017860 (OP)

What license does it have 

Please let it be GPL3

It is MPL2

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare/tree/master/item/COPYING

Wrong one (both start with h)

You are correct!

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios/tree/master/item/COPYING

Helios is GPLv3, I think.

>Not Rust

Another CVE fest. Don't give a fuck.

>>93017860 (OP)

Since it has GPLv3 wich makes to even tp compared to loonix wich has gplv2. Im atleast in to supporting the project. GPLv3 fixes DRM issues
