With a heavy heart, I come to report it is time to retire MineOS.
MineOS started in December 2010 as a few bash scripts, and since then has been the impetus for me learning much more deeply–Python, NodeJS, Ruby, and a multitude of related frameworks.
I’ve established lifelong habits in test-driven development, community engagement, and collaborative coding. I’ve had a motivational drive to work with virtual machine, bare-metal, container deployments… even plugins to well-established softwares. I’ve watched forks spawn, pull requests flow in, and appreciated minor recognition in the global Minecraft community.
However, it comes as no surprise to visitors of this forum, that I am scarcely active anymore, lacking continued development and even quality assurance of community patches and enhancements. A lot of life can change in 15+ years that compete with priorities.
I’m proud to have shared this with the world, and I’m happy to see it have continued life after over a decade and a half–much of which persisted even despite my limited presence.
MineOS won’t disappear, though I imagine it will join the ranks of antiquity as new methods to create tens of thousands of lines of code can be done with the greatest of ease now, thanks to comprehensive code generation from LLMs. All MineOS was done purely by hand–by my own, and with invaluable help from those around me.
We’ve entered a new era of coding, now–and while the whole world won’t start vibe-coding, hand-written code like this will have a hard time competing against the collaborative efforts of a motivated community assisted with these spectacular tools: it’s time for a torch to be handed-off.
Much of MineOS lived as a support community, helping others learn to be competent system administrators–this help flourished for years under this discourse, and I have great gratitude for my companions who continued to overlook it, administer, and engage in this community.
Sometime in the next month or two, I’ll be closing down this discourse forum, to allow those who are infrequent visitors to have a chance to say their goodbyes or to note down important information they learned. Beyond that, I expect to do a few reviews of the last remaining pulls in github and mark it as the sole source for MineOS to be supported (by the community).
I heartily appreciate this community, and I loved being a part of something so large, friendly, and help-focused. I’ll always hold this project in my heart very dearly. Thank you all for joining me on this journey.
- Will, or hexparrot, of MineOS