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and 23 years of tedious yak shaving. Ten years ago my rather anemic post on the Arcan project started to circulate. It got enough attention that I considered stopping right there and then. I do not care much for Continue reading
As the four horsemen of the applpocalypse rode off into the sunrise after five days of frolicking in the middle of nowhere, a spiritually Danish part of southern Sweden, Bjorn the #808080 was left standing staring into the dust cloud Continue reading
This is the concluding follow up to the article on Arcan as Operating System Design . When combined, we have reach the end of trying to explain what Arcan actually is on a higher level. After this we can revisit the Continue reading
Closing the year before heading to 39th Chaos Communication Congress we decided to tag a release for the main project for those too conservative to run from the main branch. For those on site that want to have a chat, Continue reading
The second half of the week-long session started with us waking up with a hole in our collective hearts: Alex had absconded in order to participate in a meeting way up north. He bravely overslept (brave brave Sir Alex) and Continue reading
We are a few days into the 3rd Arcan IRL hackathon. The theme this time around is Project Wayhem with hem meaning home in Swedish, and it taking place in my renovation project/eternal money sink fort out in the middle Continue reading
This is the final part concluding the long journey on how to migrate away from terminal emulation as the main building block for command-lines, text-dominant shells and user interfaces in general. First, a few links to previous parts: On top Continue reading
Just as we concluded our first NLnet grant, it is also time to say goodbye to the second phase of the project, anarchy on the desktop , and enter the third and final one. As per the old roadmap, 0.7 is Continue reading
This is a technical description of the IPC system used throughout the Arcan project, from both a designer and developer perspective, with annotations on legacy and considerations along the way. It s one of a few gems inside of the Arcan Continue reading
Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days. This is mostly due to the major features are since long in place and that part of the project is biding its time with smaller fixes while waiting for Continue reading