Extend NodeOS to KidOS

[khanshakeeb]

I wonder how people are thinking about NodeJS. For me its really surprising that people are making OS based on NodeJS so first of all I will like to give them best wishes.

However I always thinking about OS which is light weight, secure, parental control and portable and specially designed for children so that it will help them to build computing skills and also very low budget so that every child can afford it.

I am thinking is it possible to extend NodeOS and make a desktop distribution for Kids? Kindly let me know your thought on this

Thanks

[piranna]

Hi @khanshakeeb. Yes, I conceived NodeOS as an OS able to be used on education and for kids too, that's why I designed it with the users isolated ones from others. Do you have any commercial plans on this topic? KidOS would be build on top of NodeOS without problems, only that in that case I think it takes special importance to have a simple GUI easy to use. What do you think? Could you be able to work on that?

We have other open issues regarding to this topic, being the most important on this aspect to be able to run a web rendered like Gecko or Chrome on NodeOS. Could you be able to help on that?

[khanshakeeb]

Hi @piranna I am happy to see your positive reply, right now I did not make any solid commercial plan but I believe we can derive one over the period of time. Initially I am thinking to make something good to use by education institute.

I am willing to work on that as I am thinking to build OS for Kids only so let me know how can I start with KidOS

I am open to work on this project let me know how can I do my contribution

Thanks

[kskarthik]

@khanshakeeb It's exciting to see an OS based on nodejs for educational purpose ! We can rather use existing boards like the pizero (probably the cheapest one) for this.

[khanshakeeb]

I am thinking to use it http://www.orangepi.org/ because it has low price with good configuration.

[piranna]

Hi @piranna I am happy to see your positive reply

You are welcome :-)

right now I did not make any solid commercial plan but I believe we can derive one over the period of time. Initially I am thinking to make something good to use by education institute.

If you progress on the commercial aspect don't doubt on tell us, I have been lately on some ways to monetize NodeOS by giving support or implementing features and probably there will be others here that would be willing to collaborate :-)

I am willing to work on that as I am thinking to build OS for Kids only so let me know how can I start with KidOS

As I told you, if kids will be your main target, you should give attention to the GUI, so take a look at earlier examples as Sugar. Also, at this moment NodeOS can host a local GUI because we have not managed to have a web engine running on it, but you could give a remote GUI on any web browser and later use it locally when one is available... or help to make this happen ;-)

We can rather use existing boards like the pizero (probably the cheapest one) for this.

Currently NodeOS only support x86 32 and 64 bits systems. The cross-compiles was able to compile an ARM kernel but it was not able to exec a simple /init program ("binary not tainted", said), but it should be trivial for someone more experienced with ARM platforms.

[khanshakeeb]

@piranna & @kskarthik So lets start doing this activity, as I am also hosting coder dojo session for Kids so I will keep involve with Kids to validate UX of Desktop. Agreed with your point to make great GUI so that kids can easily interact with it.

[Coretool]

Yeah. The only problem is getting the web engine for the GUI onto NodeOS. :/

[kskarthik]

@> The only problem is getting the web engine for the GUI onto NodeOS

Let's adopt gecko & gaia. We get a neat UI 😃 2 days ago the whole architecture was changed https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/ moved to pure web standards. I think we can customize the UI

[khanshakeeb]

@kskarthik So can we use NodeOS at the back-end and desktop would be build on Gecko & Gaia? If yes then let me know we can utilize that and customize UI

[kskarthik]

yes. @Coretool & @piranna are investigating this..

[khanshakeeb]

Great, can we do some more discussion on some instant messenger? Could be gitter or slack?

[kskarthik]

do you use telegram ? I think its best tool for a chat. We can make a group there with upto 5000 people

[khanshakeeb]

I can use that will it be available to Windows10?

[kskarthik]

it's available everywhere https://telegram.org & open source too

[khanshakeeb]

let me download then