Maru OS becomes an open source project

http://opensourceforu.com/2016/08/maru-os-becomes-open-source-project/

by rakibtg • 10 years ago

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unixhero• 10 years ago

So Nexus6p or Galaxy S7 support?

rufugee• 10 years ago

Umm.... Did you read the article? It clearly states only the Nexus 5 is supported at the moment.

guessmyname• 10 years ago

    Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.
    "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be
    shortened to "The article mentions that."
    > https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jlmendezbonini• 10 years ago

Which devices are officially supported?
Only the Nexus 5 at the moment. Both D820 and D821 models with 16GB or 32GB storage are supported.

https://github.com/maruos/maruos/wiki/FAQ#which-devices-are-...

AdmiralAsshat• 10 years ago

Until being open sourced, this was basically a one-man project, and the Nexus 5 was the only phone supported because it's what the guy had.

Theoretically it may get support for more phones in the future as more people contribute towards it and try to get it working on their specific phones.

chatman• 10 years ago

Sailfish 2.0 from Jolla seems more compelling as a Linux based phone OS.

pekk2• 10 years ago

If only there were hardware to run it on.

qwertyuiop924• 10 years ago

...But there are no apps.

Jackneill• 10 years ago

You can run android apps.

hiphopyo3• 10 years ago

Wish it could be based on OpenBSD instead of Linux.

BoysenberryPi• 10 years ago

Why out of curiosity? Just personal preference?

bluejekyll• 10 years ago

Yeah, I don't understand this either. I know that for certain cases FreeBSD has better performance, OpenBSD is possibly more secure, NetBSD more portable, but hasn't Linux proven itself enough at this point that these debates are mostly irrelevant? It's a decent UNIX like kernel, it's already used in Android and then obviously a lot of servers.

But what features or cabalities are you missing with Linux?

mcpherrinm• 10 years ago

From what I see, it looks like this still uses the same kernel that's running on the phone. Thus you can't do anything but a Linux system, since that's what Android runs.

hackuser• 10 years ago

From the article:

"Android Open Source Project-based Maru provides you Android Lollipop for your smartphone and includes a Debian Linux within an LXC Linux Container for the desktop environment"

pekk2• 10 years ago

Do you have a mobile phone OS based on OpenBSD to share?

ashitlerferad2• 10 years ago

Some possibilities in these links:

http://openmoko.kd85.com/ http://www.defora.org/ http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496 http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_bsd.html http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenBSD https://www.monkey.org/openbsd-mobile/

hiphopyo3• 10 years ago

https://copperhead.co/android/ too apparently -- a hardened open-source operating system based on Android.

voltagex_2• 10 years ago

I don't think even a phone as common as the Nexus 5 has drivers in OpenBSD.

bdcravens2• 10 years ago

A bit pedantic: The rendering with caption "Maru OS brings Linux to an HDMI screen using the power of your Android smartphone" is very clearly an Apple Thunderbolt display, which doesn't support HDMI, let alone have a way for an Android phone to connect directly.

mwfunk• 10 years ago

Sure it does. There are HDMI adapters.

bdcravens2• 10 years ago

You can connect a Thunderbolt-out to HDMI in using mini-DP to HDMI, but not the other way around. There are fairly expensive HDMI to mini-DP adapters, but Thunderbolt isn't mini-DP, and requires a Thunderbolt signal.

userbinator• 10 years ago

At least they didn't use an iPhone.

I recall coming across a site for an Android-only app --- which was being shown on an iPhone in the big banner at the top of the page.

Maru OS becomes an open source project

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