The Unleashed Operating System

[erikb]

These are not goals. Every OS in the world has contributions and releases. Linux has the goal to be pragmatic, BSDs have the goal to be technically perfect in a certain area, Windows had the goal to be on every desktop computer in the world and more, and OSX has the goal to be smooth and sharp.

If your highest goal is that someone contributes code to your OS why would anybody use it? Think about htat question and you might find your actual goal. If you can't find a goal, then maybe the existing OSes are sufficient. Choose one, live with it, and develop something else on top that doesn't have a satisfiable alternative yet.

[rwmj]

If you've ever tried to contribute something to the Linux kernel you'd know it's not an easy process. They say that they want to "encourage new contributors to repeatedly contribute". So in this respect it is very different from the Linux kernel.

Now I will admit this is going to be tricky. How do you dissuade junk contributions or misfeatures but at the same time encourage contributions? They may end up with an overall declining quality which kills off other goals such as user adoption.

[krylon]

"we care about more than just that the code works — we want code we can (for the most part) be proud of."

I am not sure if I would use it, but I like this attitude!

[pecg]

Like the OpenBSD developers, a posture much needed these days.

[siteshwar]

> Unleashed is an operating system fork of illumos,

Can someone explain why it was forked ?

[snw]

Probably someone from the unleashed project can give a better answer, but my understanding is mostly unhappiness about the illumos contribution process.

The illumos RTI (request to integrate) process is designed to ensure a certain quality of contributions. The downside of this is that it sometimes takes a long time to contribute a change.

For illumos there is also pretty high expectation of backwards compatibility. What unleashed now offers is a place to do more radical changes and quickly iterate on new ideas.

While the small illumos community is already pretty fragmented my personal hope is that in the future work done by both projects keeps getting merged from time to time. Maybe this also serves as a wakeup call to the illumos project to make some improvements to the contribution process itself.

[lawlessone]

To change the name? :)

[fotcorn]

The first goal is to make contribution easy, but I can't find any documentation on how to do this.

A public GitLab instance where everyone could submit pull requests would be really cool (or just host it on GitHub).

[b2ccb2]

It's in the docs folder of the public git repo:

http://repo.or.cz/unleashed.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/illumos-refu...

[drngdds]

With no snarkiness intended, why would I want to use this? Is it just for people who want an OS to contribute to for fun? The only features really mentioned are "it's not horrifically legacy" and "it's easy to contribute to".

[improv32]

How will Unleashed compare to say FreeBSD? Better desktop support?

[jpttsn]

Is it just me or is the font aligned to justify and the margins set to zero?

Is this an operating system for people who don’t care to make a good first impression?

[dokem]

Maybe it's an OS for people who like systems and not CSS?

[egypturnash]

It’s not just you. Damn that does not look good on my iPad.

[cloudive]

i'd like an alternative to linux and BSD that has better RISC compatibility

[krylon]

What exactly do you mean by that? Both the Linux kernel and several of the BSD systems run on multiple RISC achitectures.

[neuromantik8086]

https://xkcd.com/927/

[lostmsu]

Yes, but why?

[jarenhavell]

Developers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs