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Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by LaikaF »

xmatos wrote: post #88

I love it! I owned an Atrix with a lapdock, which was the first device to embrace this concept. Unfortunately, it was poorly handled by Motorola in the sense that you had to hack it to enable a full linux desktop, instead of what was basically a Chromebook. What really made me give up on it was the fact that it never got updated, so you were stuck with Android 2. It was pretty useful even as a workstation and saved m…

I was one of the other Atrix people. Never got the full dock because I didn't think they'd ever continue with the concept. A shame they didn't, having more then one port on a phone might be nice.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by rtkwe »

xmatos wrote: post #88

I love it! I owned an Atrix with a lapdock, which was the first device to embrace this concept. Unfortunately, it was poorly handled by Motorola in the sense that you had to hack it to enable a full linux desktop, instead of what was basically a Chromebook. What really made me give up on it was the fact that it never got updated, so you were stuck with Android 2. It was pretty useful even as a workstation and saved m…

Or you could do the same thing with a USB-C phone. C was meant to act as a single cord (charging,video,peripherals) solution for phones and laptops already.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by throwanem »

komali2 wrote: post #108
zwieback wrote: post #77

We are trying to do a similar thing with the Elite X3, not sure whether it's one of our big sellers...

Who is "we" and what's stopping you from asking your sales team for the numbers?

Per GP's profile, HP; internal siloing and bureaucracy, would be my bet.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by rtkwe »

disconnected wrote: post #26
cwyers wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.

And now, also Samsung DeX, but that one requires a Galaxy S8 and a special dock.

The dock is really just breaking out the USB-C port to the various docks no reason it couldn't be replicated with a USB-C hub other than software lockin. Not sure there's any reason it couldn't be done with any other phone that has USB-C either.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by zwieback »

komali2 wrote: post #108
zwieback wrote: post #77

We are trying to do a similar thing with the Elite X3, not sure whether it's one of our big sellers...

Who is "we" and what's stopping you from asking your sales team for the numbers?

I'm at HP but not in the PC division.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by firmgently »

FussyZeus wrote: post #84
hartator wrote: post #75

I don't get the negativity in the comments. Maru might be early and probably won't be the one, but this is definitely the future.

No, it isn't. These kinds of devices cover a very small but very vocal component of the computer user population, mostly bloggers, writers, i.e. people who's computers don't need shit in terms of power or storage. We hear from them constantly about how tablets are ending computers, laptops are ending desktops, phones are ending computers and it's all now and previously been nonsense. For as many tasks that newer phon…

Pretty sure users doing 3D modelling or storm calculations are the smaller group, far more people use office apps and a browser.. one producer serves multiple consumers. Your bubble may be skewed (easily done in Photoshop).

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by narrowrail »

drewg123 wrote: post #39

I'm wondering how secure it is.. According to https://github.com/maruos/maruos/wiki/Tips , they start sshd up by default, listening on the local network, with the default user maru and password maru. That seems like a bit of a red flag and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.

Looking at the Github [0], it looks like a fairly alpha product targeted at technical people and has one contributor. I think giving the project some slack at this point seems reasonable. I guess if there is major concern about this, one could submit a PR?

[0]https://github.com/maruos/maruos

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by djsumdog »

zeotroph wrote: post #35

I am really surprised that the "single computing / storage device" idea which can switch between different screens and input methods seamlessly (and maybe support plug-in CPUs) is just is not happening, though the concept here is a small step in that direction. Having everything in the cloud seems to have made this somewhat redundant for most users, though I still hope one day I can carry all my data around, of cours…

Ubuntu Touch was expected to have that. Their crowdfunding video for the Ubuntu Edge showed an Android e-mail app that read/wrote to the same datastore as Thunderbird when it was in desktop mode.

I'm not sure how it worked as Ubuntu Mobile really kinda died off and I never tried it myself.

There are many other projects that have attempted this (none of which I can remember, but I've seen this concept a bunch). It makes a lot of sense. Your phone is already running a Linux kernel. You should be able to create a chroot or a container system that has a standard Linux distribution. You add some hardware/hotplug hooks, some data-sync apps and you should have a Linux desktop hidden in your phone.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by djsumdog »

xmatos wrote: post #88

I love it! I owned an Atrix with a lapdock, which was the first device to embrace this concept. Unfortunately, it was poorly handled by Motorola in the sense that you had to hack it to enable a full linux desktop, instead of what was basically a Chromebook. What really made me give up on it was the fact that it never got updated, so you were stuck with Android 2. It was pretty useful even as a workstation and saved m…

Woah I remember the Atrix! Man I had totally forgotten about that.
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