<story><title>I&apos;m forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; Ladybird now targets Linux and macOS. The SerenityOS target is dropped.&lt;p&gt;Why dropping the SerenityOS target??&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s Ladybird will need to continually pull patches from the new Ladybird project in order to keep development?&lt;p&gt;Also: is it really a fork if the new project gets to keep the name &amp;quot;Ladybird&amp;quot;? Will SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser need to be renamed, or there will be two diverging Ladybird projects with the same name? (Maybe a qualifier would help, like SerenityOS Ladybird vs Open Ladybird or something?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vincentkriek</author><text>I think the fork has to do with the following item:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Unlike SerenityOS, Ladybird will have a relaxed NIH policy (instead of &amp;quot;no 3rd party code!&amp;quot;), and will leverage the greater OSS ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;SerenityOS wants to be an OS from scratch, to see how to do things better from existing implementations. When ladybird wants to target that OS as well, using 3rd party libraries would make it hard to stay compatible. Which is easier to do on just MacOS and Linux.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&amp;gt; Ladybird now targets Linux and macOS. The SerenityOS target is dropped.&lt;p&gt;Why dropping the SerenityOS target??&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s Ladybird will need to continually pull patches from the new Ladybird project in order to keep development?&lt;p&gt;Also: is it really a fork if the new project gets to keep the name &amp;quot;Ladybird&amp;quot;? Will SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser need to be renamed, or there will be two diverging Ladybird projects with the same name? (Maybe a qualifier would help, like SerenityOS Ladybird vs Open Ladybird or something?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeek502</author><text>SerenityOS&amp;#x27;s browser has never been named Ladybird AFAIK, it&amp;#x27;s always been just Browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SerenityOS&amp;#x2F;serenity&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;Userland&amp;#x2F;Applications&amp;#x2F;Browser&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;SerenityOS&amp;#x2F;serenity&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;Userland&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ladybird was the name used for to the cross-platform version of the browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;awesomekling.github.io&amp;#x2F;Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;awesomekling.github.io&amp;#x2F;Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>