It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity.
It's really nice to see some progress there!
Would be cool if someone would port a GUI environment like KDE. I guess this could attract more people. Currently there isn't much "to see". Most of the interesting parts are in the guts of this system. An usable desktop could bring more people that want tinker with with it I guess — as OS dev is much more fun if you don't have to try out every change in a VM.
Genode Sculpt has a modern webbrowser and hardware video acceleration.
It also has VirtualBox, so it can be used for day by day computing by running Linux for misc tasks in a VM, and the developers absolutely do dogfood it.
I doubt porting KDE (which isn't at all made for a system centered around the capability model) would be a good use of Genode team's time.
> It's one of the most interesting operating system projects out there yet it gets not much attention. That's a pity.
From a research project perspective, it is interesting.
Software which is AGPL3+required contributor agreement is IMHO rather uncompelling to contribute to due to extremely asymmetric developer rights. That has given me personally little motivation to tinker with or examine the source code of their work-in-progress.
They have screenshots on the announcement, and several videos available elsewhere (youtube, genodians.org) demonstrating the dynamic composition of the system using the graphical interface.
It's really nice to see some progress there!
Would be cool if someone would port a GUI environment like KDE. I guess this could attract more people. Currently there isn't much "to see". Most of the interesting parts are in the guts of this system. An usable desktop could bring more people that want tinker with with it I guess — as OS dev is much more fun if you don't have to try out every change in a VM.