Best way to avoid bloat and AI – selfcontaining OS

Posted by bialamusic 1 day ago

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I wanted an OS that I could truly own. Most modern systems have become server-controlled clients, bloated with dependencies (Gtk4/Qt/Rust/Wayland) and centralized source control on GitHub. If you cannot audit the dependency tree and Big Corp controls the source, it is no longer real open source.

I built OneManBSD to address this. It is an OpenBSD-based system built on a single 2012 ThinkPad L430.

Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wHaoQhXOYY Project Page: https://bialamusic.com/onemanBSD/

Comments

Comment by toplinesoftsys 10 hours ago

Absolutely amazing project. I did something like that myself back in 2017. It was a desktop-like interface for iOS and then Android tables, well before windows were added to tablet OS. Here are demos:

- iOS: https://youtu.be/Wwf1TZEbFGE

- Android: https://youtu.be/_v3JiK6ZN3U

Comment by KinetiNode 21 hours ago

This is a cool project. But i have some questions. You repeatedly said that its way simpler and smaller than other OS but failed to mention how much , also does removing rust / Qt / wayland actually help at all?? And your missing real-world examples on why we should use it and what i can actually do with this OS? my main question: Why OpenBSD? Why not Linux? why not NetBSD or FreeBSD? you're also missing the target audience, for developers theres nothing better than Linux (currently maybe you can build something better haha) Also screenshots are barely enough. You need to show whats different in here than a traditional OS those are my critiques.

But Overall it's an interesting vision! Keep building