Sculpt is an open-source general-purpose OS. It combines Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware. Sculpt is used as day-to-day OS by the Genode developers.
Why aren't you using a proper µkernel, multiserver operating system, user?
Sculpt OS 19.07
Aaron Morales
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Jaxon Howard
This is legitimately one of the coolest projects I’ve seen. We need innovation like this.
That said, it was in a rather unusable and under-documented state when I last tried it. What software does it support nowadays? Can it run a web server or router?
Landon Ortiz
The devs use it on a day to day basis already.
The depots have things like free games and emulators.
You can run virtualbox in it, so you can run linux and then run whatever you want (yeah, I know...).
Just give the current Sculpt OS release a shot; It's a live system and you don't need to install anything elsewhere than ramfs.
Kevin Cruz
>You can run virtualbox in it, so you can run linux and then run whatever you want (yeah, I know...).
Ah, so not much native? That’s a shame.
Austin Roberts
Looks like a pretty neat project and I'm a huge fan of microkernels. But it's not going anywhere until it gets a decent GUI, and not just some shit ported from GNUtoddler land. That's the main reason I use MacOS (hackintoshes) as my main OS and Haiku as my tinker toy. Last time I tried it the GUI was unusable. Needs something like what QNX has. That was peak comfy.
Julian Cruz
Virtualbox to e.g. run linux in a window under genode is the "backup plan". Obviously there's a bunch of stuff available in the ports tree and ready to run in the depots.
Easton Morales
nitpicker > neutrino, any day, any time of the day.
Hudson Sanders
s/neutrino/photon/g
QNX is cool but fatally proprietary.
Tyler Long
And that’s a huge shame. It’s closed source and usually meant mostly for embedded shit, but from what I can tell it’s one of the more complete microkernel OSes out there
Ok, I’ll check it out sometime
Charles Rogers
Now this type of thread and cool stuff I'd like to see more often!
Andrew Morris
Based C++/SPARK (Ada) research OS.
Jaxson Garcia
>microkernel
>capability-based security
>sandboxed device drivers
>virtual machines
Meme words from the 90s. Theoretical bull that never survived in the real world except as research.
Blake Johnson
Nathaniel Rogers
What do you use it for OP?
Henry Martin
genodians.org
Webserver running on Genode™
Jeremiah Sanders
To feel special, Linux is too mainstream.
Ayden Martin
probably for desktop threads
Aaron Watson
Linux a shit. A shit!!
Carson Kelly
linux users want to google their stacktrace...
Jayden Long
>germany has no technolog-
Jace Rodriguez
I would switch to any non-Linux or NT based system as soon as it has pci passthrough support for virtual machines.
Juan Hughes
Gave it a spin booting usb on a laptop.
This is the future.
Adrian Fisher
it needs code of conduct
Jayden Gonzalez
Every time I read the name as "Genocide".
Ian Bell
>microkernel? Like Hurd?
But this one seems to actually work.
Where can I check what packages comes with it?
Brayden Morgan
How is this different from 9front in the end? Aside from the microkernel detail
Thomas Gutierrez
Run it. Go online. Enable ramfs and select it. Add depots from the list. Add packages and start them.
Awesome stuff.
Aaron Hill
9front is not unix. Genode is not unix.
Yet Genode is not 9front.
Adam Sanders
based genode posters
Josiah Williams
Ok but if i got it correctly the whole isolation per process is the same, just achieved with different details
Levi Adams
What kernel does Sculpt use? I saw sel4 mentioned a couple of times.
Nathaniel Morris
up
Bentley Reyes
It's not really ready for daily use yet.
Ryder Johnson
>Kernels: most members of the L4 family (NOVA, seL4, Fiasco.OC, OKL4 v2.1, L4ka::Pistachio, L4/Fiasco), Linux, the Muen separation kernel, and a custom kernel.
genode.org
Joshua Phillips
It's a research OS. Also looks pretty usable to me for something < 10x the sloc of TOS
Luis Howard
That's Genode, yes. But what about Sculpt specifically?
Justin Wilson
I know what it is user. I used to shill sel4, and genome on Jow Forums a few years ago.
My opinion:
>It's not ready for daily use yet
Robert Price
>virtualbox
Ryder Ramirez
Naruhodo. Did you keep track of the development? If so, when do you think it will be?
Joshua Ortiz
Microsoft™ Windows© already runs all the programs I need, effortlessly.
Adam Anderson
>If so, when do you think it will be?
It would be ready for mainstream use after a few desktop breads with waifu backgrounds, op/ed playlists, uptime fagging, and gimp circles.
Camden Roberts
I wouldn't say so. Check the genode book intro chapter, it talks about capabilities.
Not to be confused with posix capabilities, they're a completely different thing.