SerenityOS update (May 2024)

Hosts: Andrew Kaster & Lucas Chollet

[@andreialdea6072]

its a bit sad to no longer be in the days when from one month to another the whole desktop environment of serenity would change :^)

[@accelerat0r747]

well in general that's a pretty positive thing ! I think what is happening under the hood moving forward features and implementing new stuff in the code bases is what from my point of view is more important

[@asanjuas]

Well a partition fdisk gui format gui dialog program an installer an ext4 filesystem implementation and a graphics drivers and other things moving forward to a release.

[@chriscross7671]

I think Andrew is doing a great job with the SerenityOS progress reports.

[@juan_w_fer]

Yeah! But he should spend more time on the Catdog updates next time :^)

[@UNATCOHanka]

Andreas has been kidnapped. We have not seen him for months!

[@asystole_]

Guess you're not watching the ladybird updates?

[@mahadkalam59]

Andreas has left the Serenity project, he's just working on Ladybird now

[@necuz]

6:33 I guess the point of dry-run is that if you only want to -l and not proceed to run then add -d as well

[@Winnetou17]

I was thinking the same!

[@SuperComputer7]

It is indeed the purpose of this. The idea is to have ldd as a symlink that runs with -l and -d together. It loads the program, but doesn't show anything because it exits just before jumping to the main function. This way we could also profile the dynamic loader for actually loading a program (or so you can run it with the time command to see how much time it takes to load a specific binary).

[@MarekKnapek]

Does the shred tool communicate with the file system driver? Or it "just" overwrites the file to be shredded? Because some file systems are CoW (copy on write) meaning the shredding write request goes to completely different disk place than the target file content is located at.

[@hisham_hm]

I assume it would do an fsync (or equivalent) in the end to ensure the disk is updated.

[@harijagarnauth]

Heya! First time hearing about SerenityOS. Chess looks super cool. I'm going have to check out the OS. Thank you.

[@indu7838]

shred with -u option looks like that would also remove the file

[@LandonGavin]

Great job! One critique I have is to chill on the excessive clicking, or use something to filter out the clicking.

[@sagrel]

I really like how you guys make use of the latest tools like C++23 and clang plugins to make the codebase as nice and modern as possible. I wish I could do all of these things in my work place... Anyways, good video as always, keep up the pace!

[@Broyuz]

I'm also trying to make my own operating system. :)

[@hisham_hm]

Serenity has gotten into its CLI-heavy phase, I see! Most of the update was non-GUI stuff

[@AG-jj3lx]

Awesome work!

[@tngaskell]

Will the coming PCI refactor in the kernel make the system boot on more physical hardware?

[@SuperComputer7]

Probably not. The goal here is to make the boot procedure work in async way, and to stop use singletons for loading devices, etc.

[@chmod0644]

Very awesome

[@user-nq1ze4jt9m]

How fast will Serenity OS run on a 6 GB Intel i3 from around 2013? I recently installed Ubuntu 2024.4 and it's quite slow. P.s. dude... please stop randomly clicking all over the screen! It's making me nervous.

[@saultube44]

.so means Android/Linux compatibility? What is this? and why we need it?

[@Nunya58294]

Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.

[@xmine64]

I appreciate Andrew's efforts but I prefer to have Andreas🥲 We miss you💔