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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 throwaway91111 »

stcredzero wrote: post #60
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.

That seems like a bit of a red flag A basic and egregious security blunder is more than a bit of a red flag. and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg. If you already see that the tip sticking out has a mine on it, the tons of iceberg only give you the difference in the degree of egregiously bad.

I mean, don't install it on anything with data you care about. This isn't exactly a hardened product.

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

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Post by LeonM »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #36

I find it amusing the promo shot shows it running on an Apple Thunderbolt display - which famously does not support HDMI input, only Thunderbolt - for which there is no MHL adapter.

I was thinking the same thing. Apple mirrors... err.. I mean displays only have a thunderbolt connection, you couldn't connect your phone to it.

Yes, you could use some HDMI to DisplayPort adapter and in theory the thunderbolt display should support that, but you'd lose the webcam, ethernet, firewire, USB, microphone, speakers and daisy chaining support as DP does not support the data pipeline.

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

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Post by slobotron »

strozykowski wrote: post #22
slobotron wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Motorola webtop on Atrix was too early - phones were just too slow for even basic browsing in Firefox in laptop mode. Perhaps Maru is smooth enough on new hardware? (Still have the lapdock lying around, now hooked into RPi.)

In your experience, how well does the lapdock run with an RPi? I have a lapdock lying around, and never thought of this for some reason.

For me it's mostly a novelty - I put RiscOS on it to try it out, and it seems snappy enough. But it's a mess of cables - I never got around to making it as pretty as some [1]

[0] https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi

[1] https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/27081

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

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Post by MrMember »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #65
fps wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to have both, though. Debian apps for productivity, android apps for communications/games, side by side on the same screen with shared storage and maybe synchronized state. As it is, I have to manually sync state between the two devices which results in missed messages and inconsistent state.

So, it would be cool to have Debian as the base OS and Android running in a container. When in Phone mode, Android is front and center and when in Desktop mode, the base Debian host is. Could then still access the Android container. If the UIs supported a seamless mode, that would be icing.

I would spend a lot of money on a device that did that well.

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

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Post by MrMember »

bhauer wrote: post #16

Looks like Windows 10 Mobile Continuum. Even the types of apps being used in the screenshots echo Office being used in Continuum screenshots. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum

The difference to me is that Continuum is still just a mobile OS that is scaled up. They even point that out in their promo material, it's a "desktop-like experience." Maru, while it looks very early in development, isn't a desktop-like experience. It's a desktop experience because it's running a desktop operating system.
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