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Andreas has been doing this for a long time. The difference is that now he is openly shifting focus from the OS to the browser.

Having a fully new codebase implementing the web is a great thing.

IceWeasel was a completely different thing mainly based around mozilla trademarks for logos/names that clashed with the FOSS policies of linux distros when shipping non-upstream binaries.

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He is great and the project is awesome. But please, do tell me the goal of serenityOS?

I think it was meant to be a recovery project first, hobby second, community third. Then ladybird started showing more potential so his focus shifted there.

Sorry if I don't understand what you meant to ask.

A unix like os with user interface from the windows 2000 era that he could use as his daily driver at some point (instead of Linux). He said as much in some podcast I can't remember (probably cppcast).

No. He said it was occupational therapy. The goal was relaxed coding, not achieving anything at all.

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