FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cyanotype Project announces Blueprint Desktop 1.0 A BSD-licensed clean-room Indigo Magic desktop clone, in C99, for X11 31 October 2026 The Cyanotype Project today made Blueprint Desktop public. It is a clean-room revival of the SGI Indigo Magic Desktop, the desktop that shipped with IRIX. The code is new. It is not a fork of IRIX, not a copy of the Indigo Magic sources, and not a skin. SGI, IRIX, and Indigo Magic belong to their owners. The project is not affiliated with Silicon Graphics. Blueprint is a window manager, a toolchest, a file manager, and the small tools that belong on a desk: a clock, a text editor, a calculator, an on-screen keyboard, and the preference panels that go with them. The look is measured off real SGI hardware. The language is C99. The license is the BSD 2-clause license. The display server is X11. The design center is an SGI MIPS machine running IRIX, in the 200 to 800 MHz range. If it is quick there, it is quick on anything newer. Day to day the tree is built on NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux, with gcc and clang, including older compilers. Solaris, AIX, Tru64, and HP-UX are in scope for the same reason IRIX is. A new release does not get to demand a new computer. 1.0 is the Halloween 2026 release of work Swift Griggs started in 2007, after the SGI bankruptcy, and picked back up in July 2026. It is about a five-person project. The wallpapers are original artwork by Elizabeth Schaffer. The sound cues were recorded live: viola by Camille Broski, acoustic drums by Michael Broski, and piano by Darlene Rondo. The desk is also for people who cannot read small type, and for people who cannot hear a beep. Large type, high contrast, and an on-screen keyboard are in 1.0. Swift Griggs has vision and hearing loss, and members of the team's families are test users. More accessibility work is still ahead. That is a goal, not a finished claim. The project uses AI for the volume of code a handful of people cannot write alone. What lands in the tree is steered, reviewed, and patched by people who have been writing Unix C for decades. The project says so, and it is not ashamed of it. Blueprint does not follow current Linux desktop fashion. It will not grow a second network manager, a second sound server, or a second way of doing a job the operating system already does. There is no code of conduct. The project takes positions on technology, and on nothing else. It is an X11 project and does not provide a native Wayland port. The FAQ gives the long version, including the project's account of how Xorg was taken off the field and how more than 1000 patches from dozens of good-faith developers were left sitting for four years. Next to the desk are Sunbeam, a CalDAV calendar, and CyThrough, which publishes one X11 program at a time and puts that program's windows on the desk in front of you. A wmbench comparison is published on the site. Swift Griggs, who leads the project, put it this way: "Come for the SGI nostalgia, stay because it rocks without nostalgia and outperforms many of its peers, and hangs tough with the rest." "Optimization as a feature is the idea." The project site: https://niten.irix.expert/~cyanotype/ Release files go on the Downloads page. Notes and bug reports go to the feedback form there, or to cyanotype@irix.expert. ABOUT THE CYANOTYPE PROJECT Cyanotype is a small project led by Swift Griggs. Blueprint Desktop is the desktop environment. The source is C99 and shell, held to compilers that still matter on the machines it is built for, including SGI MIPSpro. The site carries the credits, the benchmarks, and a FAQ of positions in the project leader's own words. CONTACT Swift Griggs Cyanotype Project cyanotype@irix.expert https://niten.irix.expert/~cyanotype/