BoredOS Project

Hi there, I’m Chris, the founder of BoredOS, as some of you may know by now. For the last few weeks i’ve been working on Nova a Wayland-style compositor specifically made for the BoredOS project. History Previously, BoredOS was using a kernelUI for some reason - priorities I guess? Point is: it was super unstable and slow. About a month ago we completely removed that old window manager, along with the 30 million slow syscalls and apps made for it. ...

No, we’re not stopping with development of BoredOS, that will of course continue. We are simply stopping making releases (eg 26.6.0). Maintaining releases creates a lot of friction, and we often see situations like this: user: I downloaded BoredOS and it doesn’t boot dev: What version? user: idk, 26.6 or something dev: Try the nightly build user: wow that works This happens frequently enough that we’ve decided releases aren’t worth maintaining. ...

What this blog is, who it’s for, and why we decided to start writing.

The story of how a bad tutorial turned into a three-year (and ongoing) obsession.

Hiya, I’m Chris, the BoredOS founder. If you’ve been following my work on boredOS, you know that I’ve been building the operating system entirely from scratch. Recently, that journey led me down the rabbit hole of creating my own custom network stack and even a bespoke web browser. But once you have a scratch-built browser, you quickly run into a massive problem: the modern internet is incredibly heavily bloated. Loading today’s JavaScript-heavy websites on a minimalist, homebrew browser is a nightmare, but I still really wanted an easy way to actually surf the web from within my own OS. ...