MeccanicOS

(meccanicos.com)

19 points | by tomcam 12 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • publlus_enigma 7 hours ago ago

    The opening paragraph:

    "Your computer. In your pocket. Fast, uncluttered, secure, shell first, keyboard driven, encrypted filesystem, sane custom tools."

    I have no idea what that means, or what this project is, from that description alone.

    • vrighter 6 hours ago ago

      just from that line i can already tell it was claude.

      • wolvoleo an hour ago ago

        "It's not Linux, it's Liberation" :D

  • jdnier 7 hours ago ago

    Note that the author also created the web2py web framework. I attended a presentation he gave on web2py at a PyCon in Chicago back in 2008-ish. He's an academic and has been making open source software for a long time.

    I watched the video and really liked what I saw.

  • wolvoleo 11 hours ago ago

    Basically yet another live pendrive linux image with persistence?

    Nice, but it doesn't really explain what's so unique about it.

  • abound 11 hours ago ago

    If you like the idea of "self-contained OS on a USB drive with encrypted persistence", but don't want to entrust it to vibed-together projects that have been around for ~a month, there are other options, like Tails (which supports encrypted persistence) [1] or duct tape your own version together with any normal distribution (Debian, Fedora, Arch, etc) and LUKS.

    [1] https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/index.en.html

  • vrighter 6 hours ago ago

    typical clueless claude user thinking they invented something we already had decades ago

  • internetguy 10 hours ago ago

    i get this might be cool and might be a cool usecase but not a fan of the slop...

  • weezing 11 hours ago ago

    Slop OS with Claude as main contributor

  • floren 11 hours ago ago

    [dead]