Testing the nexsOS UI (NOTE: Use of ai in source code)
Warning: This project was built using AI, mostly with free plans, but also with the support of Claude Code. It's not the nature of my post to pretend I created anything here; I was really just the supervisor. That said, the huge nature (at least from my point of view) of this project, and my limited financial resources have forced me to constantly think and learn, and continue to do so, so I consider myself at a lower level in terms of coding skills than most of the people who are part of this community, and I love seeing how each of us makes mistakes and tries to patch them.
Nexsos is therefore a project born to allow me to learn in an interactive and gradual way what all the aspects of a computer are, and to allow me to do so in an informal way, and with gradual discovery. Nexsos is not intended to be a product or a boast, it is in all respects a Frankenstein born to test how much human ignorance and curiosity mixed with the algorithmic knowledge of an LLM can give life to something that works.
On the technical side, the purpose of NexsOS1 is simple: to separate the kernel from the userspace to allow me to learn the C language on my API without blowing everyone up, and at the same time to make my C library simple and readable in a single file. The graphics protocol had to be designed in the same way. The easy choices would have been two: to provide a basic environment for GNU Utilis and compile an X server/Wayland, or to rewrite the graphical interface from scratch. I stupidly chose the second one and with all the problems that come with it, for example, for now the compositor is in the kernel and shadows without hardware vector accelerators make the framerate explode. The good thing, however, is that the rendering of the applications is done in userland, so having SMP support makes graphical applications easier.
That said, why this video? At some point in our journey, we should ask ourselves how useful we really are to others. I have always seen AI as a very powerful tool, but perhaps we tend to forget what it means for us, I do not have the actual skills to build a functional and working system on two architectures with multitasking and a working SMP, but if I do not have the actual skills to do this and I can do it, what can these tools do in the hands of large companies that do not want to share the code? Even if I call myself ignorant, perhaps I am ignorant about coding, here we all know how the GNU project and the GPL project were born, I do not know what the members of this thread think about it and I do not even know if it is the right thread, after all, guys, we also know how these LLMs were trained on the effort of all software developers, is it right to privatize public knowledge? As far as I am concerned, the only thing I could really do is exploit the knowledge of AI itself to put together and build something free, so I do not know how you want to define NexsOS, I do not care, the important thing for me is that it is free and that anyone can in turn steal code from within it.
NOTE: If anyone would like to look at the code and has any questions about missing references or licenses, I'd be happy to update the published code. Any criticism is welcome.
NOTE2: lua still doesn't pass all the tests, even though the IDE works and also the job controls of my shell seem ok (I didn't show them in this video), the exec daemon is ok, but I'm having problems with the initialization of the venv for pid.