There has been a lot of attention on helloSystem this week as a macOS-inspired operating system built atop FreeBSD with an emphasis on providing a polished desktop experience. Since we highlighting the FOSDEM presentation about it, there has been a lot of coverage on helloSystem and this weekend marks a new experimental ISO release.

The helloSystem motto is being a " desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better! " The desktop utilities are written with PyQt5.

The latest stable release is helloSystem r0.4 from two weeks ago while uploaded on Saturday was "experimental-12.1" as the latest experimental build of the newest helloSystem state. This is a pre-release ahead of helloSystem r0.5 and is based against upstream FreeBSD 12.1.

With being a pre-release there isn't yet any detailed change-log. Via GitHub is an AMD64 ISO build for those wanting to give it a try.

We'll see what comes of helloSystem in 2021, it should be quite a ride.