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the styx operating system
computing like it's meant to be

october 2024 update

Written by sirocyl on Wed, Oct 16, 9:51 AM.

The blog might look a little different right now. Not for too long, mind, but right now, we are rebasing the entire hydra project to its locally-hosted upstream, right here at https://hydra.styx.systems/diffusion/1/.
Sorry if you got flashbanged by the style change - light theme was the default fallback theme.

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september update

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 8:03 PM.

(I think we're the first OS in twenty years to use one! I know Debian did, at least.)

styx 88x31 button gif, with the styx logo, "Computing like it's meant to be", "Join in! styx-os.org"
Feel free to embed the styx web button on your site to link back to https://styx-os.org/ and share your support for the consent-first, composable operating system for people who are tired of computers. :)

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Programs, not apps.

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 7:54 PM.

styx takes a pro-"Program", anti-"App" stance to its own software. We won't forbid "apps", that's silly, but we won't be making our stuff an "app" for sure.

But on the flip side - I want styx and its own software to be approachable to the common person - as if it were an "app", where possible, excluding fine technical tunings and things like that.

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the styx project isn't dead!

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 7:36 PM.

... but cohost.org is soon going to be shut down.

For one thing, we are probably the first, and will be the last, Linux distro and/or operating system and/or utility software project to use cohost.

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Open comments: On software freedom and styx.

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 7:20 PM.

I'm not making a hard decision yet on this front, but I do want to request comments to inform our decision-making process regarding the rules defining "software freedom" - associating only Free Software with the styx "systems" and "software" maintainership and repositories, where possible, and whether to prohibit "nonfree" software in styx and its core repositories; (1) to what scope, if so; and what impact that will have on the maintainability and usability of a styx system, moving forward.

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styx is a consent-first operating system.

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 6:55 PM.

This is perhaps the most important point to cover, because it informs every step of every process we do to produce, promote and develop styx.

We don't force choices on the user to further our own goals, because not doing so is Goal One.
Everything else is secondary to this.

The consent and autonomy of an installing user over their system, SHALL NOT be infringed.

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debut post!

Written by sirocyl on Sep 26 2024, 6:19 PM.

hi. This is styx. (@sirocyl here!)

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About the styx operating system

We just want you to be able to use the computer without fighting it. That's all.

styx will be a consent-first, usability-oriented operating system, with a Linux® kernel, and a distribution of self-contained application packages.

This blog, and some of the documentation outposts in hydra, will be a prime source of information for the styx projects.
We're moving information out of Discord as we develop hydra and the styx governance model more.
The styx Discord will transition to being a community space.
Until now, we'd been keeping track of ideas, notes and RFCs over here: https://discord.gg/2Ctxx7mkcy


Computing like it's meant to be - styx-os.org
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