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compiler-devel | 1 month ago

Nice name, I suppose it recalls Apple’s Rhapsody project.

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linguae|1 month ago

Additionally, Gershwin is the name of the intended follow-up to the cancelled Copland project.

malco_2001|1 month ago

That was not intentional but just a coincidence actually. I came up with Gershwin as something to be comparable to "Darwin" as a core OS. I originally wanted to combine the Linux kernel with a Userland "familiar to switchers" more like a BSD and build on that. I also decided early on it was best to focus on being a DE that could run on anything and make the underlying OS not matter as much. Everyone involved really liked the name, so I went with it.

amusings|1 month ago

Screenshots look like OS X 1.0 and nothing like Rhapsody. I've found the OS X aesthetics unpleasant compared to how Rhapsody looked like so it was the final straw pushing me to Windows :)

probonopd|1 month ago

Should be doable to put a Rhapsody theme on it... GNUstep is very flexible in this regard. Thanks to Method Swizzling, themes can change things pretty substantially.