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Will it be open source? "Free for licensing" isn't quite clear. Will anyone by able to license access to the source code for free? If yes, what about forking? EDIT: Okay, this isn't what I've hoped for: >Disclaimer: Remix OS is only licensed to authorized business partners and pre-loaded on specific product models of those partners;it's not intended for personal use.
Will it be open source? "Free for licensing" isn't quite clear. Will anyone by able to license access to the source code for free? If yes, what about forking? EDIT: Okay, this isn't what I've hoped for: >Disclaimer: Remix OS is only licensed to authorized business partners and pre-loaded on specific product models of those partners;it's not intended for personal use.
> "With that in mind, Remix OS for PC is free to download, free to install, and free to use."
No idea about open source, though.
Will it be open source? "Free for licensing" isn't quite clear. Will anyone by able to license access to the source code for free? If yes, what about forking? EDIT: Okay, this isn't what I've hoped for: >Disclaimer: Remix OS is only licensed to authorized business partners and pre-loaded on specific product models of those partners;it's not intended for personal use.
yeah this is not great. moving right along...
"Right click" is a feature. That makes sense but I still find it funny.
On the one hand, it has created a nice software ecosystem by pushing a consistent set of APIs. Linux desktop applications were never remarkable except for a few ones. I think fragmentation into a myriad of frameworks led to this. The only 2 X11 applications I use are firefox and zathura.
On the other hand, too much stuff has been redone in Android. It's too foreign. I would prefer less app-ification, less stores, more package management. And no mothership, no Google.
Awesome. This sort of thing is what makes me hopeful for a Linux desktop one day-- that I actually enjoy using. I'm really excited to give this a try. Does anyone know where to download or when it'll be available? Doesn't seem to be available yet?
I have no idea how open it is to modification in practice, though. I might consider trying it if I can get a proper shell on it (similar to the Android shell you get in an emulator when using 'adb shell'), even if I cannot fork their DE code itself.
As a hardcore Linux user, I'm really torn about Android. On the one hand, it has created a nice software ecosystem by pushing a consistent set of APIs. Linux desktop applications were never remarkable except for a few ones. I think fragmentation into a myriad of frameworks led to this. The only 2 X11 applications I use are firefox and zathura. On the other hand, too much stuff has been redone in Android. It's too for…
It might sound crazy when you consider some of the services typically installed with a package manager but ultimately there's no reason why an "app" cannot run in root, many root packages aren't actually installing drivers, they're only root for historical reasons (e.g. being able to read/write to /etc).
Why, for example, couldn't a web server be an app? Or a DNS client? Or a DNS server? Sure, there are certain system services which cannot (anything installing drivers/filter drivers/core UI/sound subsystem/graphics subsystem) but MOST things can.