In web chats and other typed responses, it's customary to add an "LOL" to indicate humor or light-hearted sarcasm, but for me it's relatively rare that any blog post will illicit an "actual" laugh out loud moment. However, upon reading the line "Today, Urbit is a real system with thousands of users" I did indeed utter an audible guffaw. "Thousands" they say!
Anyway, it's an interesting project for sure. If I read their description page correctly, this functions as a light-weight minimal OS one can boot into, mainly for the purposes of secure chats and simple forums communications (and play chess and few other things you could do with circa 1988 OS). How's the hardware support for this project BTW? Does it end up running most processes in a kind of emulation mode? I didn't see a whole lot of spec.s in terms of what could or could not run it...
In web chats and other typed responses, it's customary to add an "LOL" to indicate humor or light-hearted sarcasm, but for me it's relatively rare that any blog post will illicit an "actual" laugh out loud moment. However, upon reading the line "Today, Urbit is a real system with thousands of users" I did indeed utter an audible guffaw. "Thousands" they say!
Anyway, it's an interesting project for sure. If I read their description page correctly, this functions as a light-weight minimal OS one can boot into, mainly for the purposes of secure chats and simple forums communications (and play chess and few other things you could do with circa 1988 OS). How's the hardware support for this project BTW? Does it end up running most processes in a kind of emulation mode? I didn't see a whole lot of spec.s in terms of what could or could not run it...
The intensity of the community matters more than the size. There is enough of both to have an annual conference. https://assembly.urbit.org/
Hardware projects include Native Planet. https://urbit.org/ecosystem#native-planet Others exist.