Simon Peter ( simon peter ), the creator of the format of self -sufficient packages appimage , published release Hellosystem 0.8 based on FreeBSD 13 and positioned as a system for ordinary users, which MacOS lovers, dissatisfied with Apple policy, can go to. The system is deprived of the complications inherent in modern Linux devices, is under the full control of the user and allows you to feel comfortable for former MacOS users. To familiarize yourself with the distribution formed loading image of 941 MB (torrent ).
The interface resembles macos and include Two panels – the upper with a global menu and the lower with the application panel. To form a global menu and the status line, a package is involved panda-statusbar , developed by the distribution of Cyberos (formerly PandaOS). Application panel doc based on the developments of the project cyber -Dock , also from the developers cyberos . To control files and placement of shortcuts on the desktop, the file manager is developing filr based on PCManfm-Qt from the LXQT project. By default, Falkon browser is offered, but Firefox and Chromium are optionally available. Applications are supplied in self-sufficient packages. To launch applications, the utility launch , which finds the program and analyzes errors when performing.
The project develops a series of own applications, such as configurator, installer, utility mountarchive for mounting archives in the FS tree, utility for data restoration with ZFS, discs for breaking disks, network settings indicator, screenshot utility, zeroconf browser, volume indicator, utility for tuning the boot environment. For development, Python and QT library are used. Among the supported components for the development of applications, Pyqt, QML, QT, KDE Frameworks and GTK are named in order to reduce preference. ZFS is used as the main file system, and UFS, Exfat, NTFS, EXT4, HFS+, XFS and MTP.
are supported for mounting.
The main innovations of Hellosystem 0.8: