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The Silk Project is a community that wants to be innovative, develop open-source software (mostly MIT licensed) and revive operating systems since 2024. We are looking forward to getting more members for the Silk Project. If you want to contribute or simply want to share your ideas with us, feel free to ask us on our contact page.
The Silk project has created a large collection of software, which mainly includes older (but also newer!) operating systems, basic tools and applications.
This includes, for example, SilkOS (not to be confused with SilkOS Legacy), a fork of SerenityOS. SilkOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems. It's goal is to combine a relatively modern software foundation with the classic 1990s software aesthetic and features. It mainly features a 64-bit kernel which is capable of multi-threading, a full featured web browser called Kori and great POSIX compatibility.
Since the process of compiling SilkOS can be difficult, we created Silk Dev Portal. Silk Dev Portal is a beautiful self-hostable Development Portal WebUI that includes an integrated per-user Web IDE platform and the ability to manage SilkOS build containers. The account system, which is based on the Silk Forum Backend, is very straightforward and offers excellent security.
Another great example is the Silk Mizu Browser. The Silk Mizu Browser is a lightweight browser built on the PyQT6 GUI framework. It mainly focuses on being highly customizable, featuring a theme editor, an extension store for widgets (e. g. Notes in the sidebar) and web engine extensions like local AI webpage summarization. Instead of the official extensions being closed source like most browsers, Mizu's extensions are open source, and users can even create their own extensions for the browser.
Because our software always runs silky smooth. I'm not sure what kind of question that is.
