SAFEos

A SAFE Operating System

Highlighted by David Irvine in this interview, the SAFE Operating System is an inevitability, even if it may not be ready for a year or so. It is the final touch on a 100% end-to-end encrypted platform.

History

Perhaps the first official envisionment of a completely secure and free internet experience came from Richard Stallman (creator of the GPL license that SAFE uses), who has many deeply moving talks about freedom and software. Many "free" (as in "freedom") or "open-source" projects have been developed in the spirit of this, and the Linux Kernel was a major breakthrough in a complete operating system built on freedom. Many iterations of this have and will come, and once the SAFE Network has established this freedom online, the last step will be making a SAFE OS, to close the loop completely.

Features

A new, open-source GPLv3 OS built specifically with the SAFE Network's nodes, networking, and Rust in mind, to create a completely seamless experience. It will be free to download, fork, and use, meaning that anyone who wants a computer will now only have to pay for the hardware. The days of obscenely-priced OS & software being required (only making Bill Gates richer at the--literal--expense of the world) will be OVER, and the age of computing will truly begin, for people in every country, rich or poor.

Launch date

It was expected that the network would launch at the end of last year, (and this app soon after,) however an amazing new coding language came out called "Rust" that turned out to be perfect for the SAFE Network to be created with. So, the team decided to restart the whole network from scratch in Rust. This means we will have to wait a few more months to see the network or this app. Follow it on Github!