Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s – “On the minus side, SerenityOS’s browser threw an exception—on the plus side, that Crash Reporter is a thing of beauty!”
SerenityOS’s homegrown browser will need some more work, also—it can’t successfully play YouTube videos yet… Porting a modern browser like Firefox or Chromium to an entirely new operating system is arguably as difficult as writing one from scratch, and it’s a never-ending project given the rapidity with which web standards and browser technologies evolve.
Fortunately, this isn’t Kling’s first browser rodeo—he told us that he worked on web browsers for Nokia and others for many years. He also has the advantage of being able to build a web browser that’s only a web browser, something that isn’t always possible with older operating systems.
also btw…
- I feel like it’s the 1990s all over again: “I’m playing with a new browser, Sidekick, and I kinda like it. Anyone have a new Gopher client I can try out? I want the full period frisson.”
- Larry David Confronts Alan Dershowitz in Heated Encounter at Martha’s Vineyard Grocery Store – “In which David confronted Dershowitz…”
Dershowitz told David, “We can still talk, Larry.”
David replied, “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”
Dershowitz said, “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”
To which David replied, “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”
- A quick thread of how we’re going back to the 1990s. “Now I just want grunge back, dammit.”[*]
- Mindwalk – “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”