“New Linux Distro” here just means a new graphical environment.
Yep as it is based on Ubuntu
JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#42For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
> Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison.
Isn't that what they said? They stated that one of the reasons to create a new OS is that Apple is a closed platform. You can't blame them to go further than that in a marketing video, it's not like they're posting anonymous comments on an internet forum.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
The popular web server Nginx started in Russia almost 20 years ago. Nobody would have used the software of such dubious origin if it was closed-source. Being open-source allowed many more eyeballs and developers which increased trust in the project. With the current geopolitical landscape, projects from Russia, China and increasingly the United States must be open-source to become widely used and trusted. If China-ba…
Wouldn't a license that allows seeing and building the code, but not redistribution be sufficient for that?
No.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#44For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
I wouldn’t have even bothered to click the link if they hadn’t used the word ipad.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#45> Available from Jan 31, 2021 So, is this going to be a paid for product? I am looking at what looks like is their GitHub page, and it's basically empty? https://github.com/JingOS-team
Well it did answer my question what this is written in. They use QT.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#46For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
What's elephant for you is a fly for most others. My grandmother is afraid of things like Ubuntu.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#47Awesome! Its exciting to see new applications of *nix OSes that are design-forward and targeted towards modern computing paradigms / platforms. I’m a grumpy graybeard who likes Arch on my laptop and Debian on my server...but cosmetics and familiar visual vocab and adopting industry ux practices—these are undeniable obstacles that must be overcome before “the year of the Linux desktop “ :)
I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.
Good design explicitly values borrowing/stealing. Unlike the tech rat race, UI design is very happy to credit inspiration.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.
"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs
This quote is not from Picasso, it is in fact much older[0].
The stealing part of this phrase was more about how great
artists make existing ideas their own("stealing"),
reinterpreting them on the way.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#49For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
> turn off
Speaking as a hacker or a consumer?
“Apple's domination of the global tablet market continued in the third quarter of 2020, according to market research firm Canalys, with iPad shipments seeing an estimated 47% year-over-year growth rate thanks to coronavirus trends.”
The market is speaking, and consumers don’t care about what the OS is. They never have, and never will.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/apple-extends-mas...
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#50Looking at the launch video [0], this looks very professional done. Which company is behind this? I can't find any info on the site. Is this team related to Huawei? 0. https://youtu.be/3E0ADUIiFzA
I don't know if there's any shared code, but it looks like it's related to this Chinese project: https://fydeos.com/
Not sure if it's the same company, but this ICP number also owns flintos.com;
https://icplishi.com/%E4%BA%ACICP%E5%A4%8716065045%E5%8F%B7/