Sep 18, 2022 12:00:00

The developer of 'SerenityOS' pursuing the classic design of the 90's releases a new browser

by the SerenityOS team

Andreas Kling, who develops ``

Serenity OS '' that reproduces the design like a PC in the 90's, has revealed that he is developing a new web browser `` Ladybird ''. It can be run on Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL), and Android, and is in the early stages of development at the time of writing.

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project – Andreas Kling – I like computers!
https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/

Ladybird is based on SerenityOS' LibWeb and LibJS engines.

While Mr. Kling was creating SerenityOS, it became possible to build LibWeb in headless (no GUI) mode on Linux, so it seems that Ladybird was the beginning of building a simple GUI next.

Initially, Ladybird was supposed to be used as a debugging tool to make it easier to 'maintain Linux while working with LibWeb', but I realized that I use Ladybird for most of my browser development work, so I decided to use Ladybird. It was said that it was developed with the expectation that more people could use it by fine-tuning from 'browser engine for SerenityOS' to 'cross-platform browser engine'.

Ladybird and its engine are freely available under the open source

2-clause BSD license .

``Since I started the SerenityOS project in 2018, my goal has been to build a complete desktop OS and eventually use it as my daily driver,'' Kling said. ``A little therapy for myself. What started as a project has blossomed into a huge OSS community with hundreds of people working around the world, and over the last four years it has grown from nothing to a capable system with its own browser stack. Even with all this great development, my own goal remains the same: in addition to creating a new OS for myself, I want to create a cross-platform web browser.'

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