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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 swiley »

jareds wrote: post #184
swiley wrote: post #165

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You should leave the default user's password blank on embedded Linux images! Why does everyone set them up with default passwords!? I'm surprised the raspbian maintainers have not realized this yet. sshd won't let you login with an empty password by default.

What percent of pi users don't connect a keyboard and monitor? I don't mind having a default password since when ever I've used a pi I ran it headless and configured it on first boot with SSH. It would make sense to force the pi user to change there password on first login, can't remember if this is the case.

You could set it up using the serial console then.

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

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Post by rickycook »

X-Cubed wrote: post #186
panic wrote: post #173

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The website is super polished and doesn't mention anything about being alpha quality. It would be easy to install this on your phone without any idea you were making yourself vulnerable.

It's version 0.4, so it's a pre-release build.

welllll, so are plenty of packages people install into production software every day. i think pre release means less to people these days.

and sure, you can blame it on the people using the software, but that doesn't stop a bunch of ssh servers with default credentials being open to the network.

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

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Post by catmanjan »

I like the idea, the biggest benefit is of course the "all in one" deal - seems a waste to have to tether your phone to your laptop, or get a laptop with a SIM slot (and all the costs that go with it)

I'd like to see: 1. The source code 2. Support for newer devices (might go hand in hand with 1) 3. Support for wireless HDMI adapters, having to carry no cables at all would be very neat, although I guess this needs a power supply to last for any useful amount of time

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

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Post by SubiculumCode »

cyc115 wrote: post #199
sangnoir wrote: post #175

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> The "2013 devices" makes me thing that this is a "toy" for people like "us" that have a Nexus rotting away somewhere I'm writing this on a 2013 Nexus, thank you very much! A year ago it stopped booting and I tried searching for a newer, comparable tablet to replace it: no such device exists. I ordered a replacement main board and couldn't be happier. Until someone makes a new 7-inch tablet with a full HD display, i…

I'm using a N5 as my primary phone... It seems mad to me that the life expectancy of a phone is so short those days. :P

same here...and the only thing bad is the battery life :-/

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

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Post by em3rgent0rdr »

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 still have my atrix. I remember hacking it to run a full linux desktop via the dock instead of Motorola's official limited selection. Motorola was truly ahead of their time...it is unfortunate for them that the smartphones weren't quite fast enough then to run the firefox desktop browser, though.

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Post by voltagex_ »

pdsouza wrote: post #190
floatboth wrote: post #124

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Nexus 5, sadly not 5X

Very early alpha available for the 5X on the forum: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/maru-os-dev/U9EpPQ0SFb0/4MIe...

The 5X doesn't have HDMI out, does it?

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

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Post by WillPostForFood »

swiley wrote: post #201
jareds wrote: post #184

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What percent of pi users don't connect a keyboard and monitor? I don't mind having a default password since when ever I've used a pi I ran it headless and configured it on first boot with SSH. It would make sense to force the pi user to change there password on first login, can't remember if this is the case.

You could set it up using the serial console then.

Does the average Raspberry Pi purchaser have the hardware or knowledge to connect a serial console?
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