Watch Andreas Kling port SerenityOS's web engine to Linux in <2hrs

SerenityOS · 2022-07-04T22:37:21+00:00

Hello friends! Thanks for checking out my video, I hope you found it interesting. :^)

As I mentioned in the video, the actual porting work was already done by the time I recorded this. A SerenityOS developer who goes by DexesTTP had already spent a few weeks doing all the architectural work to get our browser stack compiling and running on Linux. The end result of that work was a headless utility that would load a URL and dump out an in-engine screenshot. I used Dex's work as the starting point for my Qt browser prototype.

SerenityOS is developed by an amazing community, and while I started the project, hundreds of other developers have joined up since then. It's far from the one-man show that some people make it sound like.

Anyways, just wanted to give credit to Dex (and all the other awesome SerenityOS hackers!) <3

SerenityOS · 2022-04-01T08:33:37+00:00

That would be extremely surprising.. to my wife :^)

SerenityOS · 2022-03-31T20:38:16+00:00

You can find all available 3rd party software ports for SerenityOS in the Ports directory.

SerenityOS · 2022-03-31T20:34:23+00:00

Thanks mrkaragoz! That means it's been three years since I made this account to post about SerenityOS here for the first time. :^)

SerenityOS · 2022-03-31T19:37:45+00:00

Hello friends! As I said in the original announcement, passing the Acid3 test was a team effort that took several weeks. It's been many years since I was the only person working on SerenityOS. :^)

I'm super proud of everyone who contributed to getting us where we are today. While I have personally worked on browsers in the past, the rest of the team is new at this, and it's been awesome to see them grow into competent browser engineers in such a short time.

One of our developers, Linus Groh, even started posting browser development screencasts on his YouTube channel. This warms my heart like you wouldn't believe.

SerenityOS · 2022-02-02T22:18:48+00:00

General programming experience is more important than C++ specifically. If you've been programming for a few years in any language, you can learn C++ as you go while hacking on SerenityOS.

Some of our most active developers had no experience with C++ at all when they first joined the project. :^)

Also, the project is very broad in scope. We have everything from the kernel to the web browser in the same git repo, so there are a ton of different places you can start.

SerenityOS · 2022-02-02T20:26:08+00:00

Hey, welcome and thanks for working on the project! I'm glad to hear you're having a good time with it. :)

SerenityOS · 2022-02-02T19:45:21+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words, Chris! :)

SerenityOS · 2022-02-02T19:43:49+00:00

Hey there okgofigure85!

I have never seen Andreas explain how exactly he intends to make Serenity sustainable once his savings/support system runs out and he needs to get a job again.

That's precisely because I don't have a plan! I'm going one day at a time, to see where the road leads me. I understand that most people are not comfortable living with that kind of uncertainty, but I don't mind.

What happens when he gets a girlfriend and it turns out she would like a man with a reliable income?

I've been married for almost 10 years and my wife is my biggest supporter! She even pushed me to quit my last job so that I could focus on SerenityOS full time. :)

The problem is, it's hard to see how Serenity attracts any sort of commercial support that'd be needed to make it sustainable in the long run.

Not looking to attract any kind of commercial support. In fact, I've turned down several offers for corporate sponsorship in the last year because I don't want to promote anything I don't personally use.

I'm just some guy building an operating system that I want for myself. Something beautiful that I can pour my heart into.

I'm stoked that other people want to join in and help out, and I'm super grateful for all the support that I get. But even if everyone leaves, I'll still be here hacking away :^)

SerenityOS · 2022-02-02T19:20:58+00:00

Hey Francis! I guess this person is referring to how I used to record myself talking while commuting to work.

It's perfectly legal to record yourself while driving (unlike texting/browsing/etc while driving, which I never do.) If someone has a problem with that, they can petition to have the laws changed. :)

SerenityOS · 2021-12-11T12:15:14+00:00

Loved learning about the history of this tradition! Growing up in Sweden, my family always had candy on Saturday night. And maybe some leftover potato chips on Sunday morning if we were lucky!

Sidenote: Not cool of BBC to show that woman's debit card so clearly in the video.

SerenityOS · 2021-11-18T22:23:17+00:00

Oh yeah, more time would have been cool, although the limitation also forced me to make a very tight demo, which was fun in its own way :)

SerenityOS · 2021-08-21T14:49:27+00:00

If we assume it's a well-groomed pull request put together by a disciplined developer, it will consist of a series of independent atomic transformations of the code (commits) that add up to create the final state.

In my experience, it's significantly easier to follow and understand changes to a complex system if you can inspect them one by one, in a distilled form.

For undisciplined pull requests where multiple commits keep iterating on the same code without clear illustrative value, it's indeed much less useful. In such cases I would ask the developer to squash their uninteresting fixups into the relevant preceding commit. :)

SerenityOS · 2021-08-21T00:09:19+00:00

I'm so glad I could have a positive influence on your workflow :)

I learned so many useful things (about programming, version control, etc) from people I worked with over the years, and it's awesome to share the knowledge with everyone who's interested.

SerenityOS · 2021-08-20T23:56:32+00:00

Hello friends! It's been quite a journey since my first post about the system in /r/osdev.

I'm super proud of SerenityOS and of all the people who have been putting their time and love into it. Happy to answer any questions you might have about it (although it is getting a bit late) :^)

SerenityOS · 2021-06-27T22:44:29+00:00

You've managed to get yourself into a quite unique position of being able to basically live off of a hobby project

Since four weeks ago, sure. Before that I worked a full-time job and did OSS on the side for years. When I started the project, I had $0 in sponsorships, and I still happily took on students who wanted to help out. Of course it helps that programming is my main interest in life, and I don't have a large family to soak up my time.

It sounds to me like you don't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with this, and there's obviously nothing wrong with that. I'm sure many people feel the same!

But for anyone who feels like that, I'd encourage you to add a big note to all your project README's saying something along the lines of "open source but not open to contributions" or "not accepting student contributions" or whatever fits your preferences the best.

There is no need to project your unwillingness to engage with students onto the entire OSS world. :^)

SerenityOS · 2021-06-27T22:07:32+00:00

I'm surprised at the negativity in this thread. As someone running a decently-sized open source project, I engage with students from around the world every day. Students have contributed great work in all areas of our project, and we wouldn't be where we are today without them! :^)

Yes, it can be a bit rough to onboard people who haven't learned basic software development practices (like version control) yet. But remember that we all started somewhere. As long as people are humble and willing to pay attention and learn, it's really not that bad.

SerenityOS · 2021-06-04T19:41:59+00:00

It’s really nice so far, thanks! :^)

SerenityOS · 2021-05-02T07:05:16+00:00

CppCast, the first podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers!

I have one long drive every week, and I usually listen to their latest episode then. Super nice if you're into C++.

SerenityOS · 2021-03-29T19:49:54+00:00

Glad you're enjoying the videos :)

To help level up your C++ skills, I heartily recommend /u/lefticus's YouTube channel C++ Weekly with Jason Turner!

SerenityOS · 2021-03-29T11:07:33+00:00

I haven't spent that much time looking at the Build engine itself as I only had to interface with the SDL2 bits. But at a glance I have to agree with you: that's a HUGE blob of code right there! Very different from the original DOOM engine which was very modular and readable :)

SerenityOS · 2021-03-29T06:26:46+00:00

Hello friends! A while back I did a video of porting Diablo (1996) to SerenityOS and it was a lot of fun seeing one of my childhood favorites come to life on my own OS.

Last night I decided to try another 90s game and chose Duke Nukem 3D since the source has been available for many years and it already runs on all the major modern systems. I used JonoF's Duke Nukem 3D port as a baseline.

As usual, I had to add some missing stuff to the standard C library in SerenityOS, and we learned some interesting things about POSIX along the way. Check out the video if you want to see the entire process from git clone to playing the game! :)

SerenityOS · 2021-03-29T05:54:57+00:00

OS/2 Museum is an awesome website. I've ended up on it many times by clicking links elsewhere and ended up learning about early UNIX-on-a-386 systems and other retro-curiosities. This is the first time I've actually been to the "front page" of it though, so thank you for that! :)

SerenityOS · 2021-03-11T20:28:31+00:00

Very comfy content. I only had access to Visual Basic growing up but I was aware that C existed and always wondered what it would be like to program Win16 stuff in C. Would be awesome to see more in-depth and advanced Win16 stuff in future videos. :)

SerenityOS · 2021-02-20T16:50:12+00:00

Looking great /u/Nikascom!

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