Airyx OS has seen its first beta release, with a quite a few big improvements.
• Default application bundles: Firefox, Terminal, and Kate
• A new AppKit-based ObjectiveC installer (Install airyxOS.app)
• Java SDK 17.0.1+12
• Updated to FreeBSD 12.3RC base OS and kernel
• Improvements to AppKit including better support of color catalogs and color lists, more Mac-like default colors, support for pop-up menus, fixed scrollbar icons, improved font handling, system key bindings, improved NIB support, fixed glitches in window resizing and moving, and more.
• Updated many packages
You can read more about Airyx on its website, and be sure to follow the project’s account on Twitter for more updates.
Early days but already fun to play with. I can see the potential and wish them luck.
“beta” though? bit early to call it that isnt it?
Interesting project, but I can’t help but think they’re setting themselves up for failure by not using more mature and stable upstream projects like GNUstep and Darling. Instead, they seem to have opted to use the remnants of Cocotron because “I prefer BSD/MIT/Apache-style licensing” (quoted from https://airyx.org/faq/). The problem, if you have a look at their Github project, is that Cocotron never implemented many of the more advanced Cocoa APIs and instead just calls NSUnimplementedMethod(). There are whole classes with no implementation. I guess this would allow you to compile software, but it most certainly won’t allow you to actual run any of it.
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