Arcan

… and 23 years of tedious yak shaving.

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 they left behind, con…

This is the concluding follow up to the article on ‘Arcan as Operating System Design‘.

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.

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.

We are a few days into the 3rd Arcan IRL hackathon.

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.

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.

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.

Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days.