Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
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#3> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme.
In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well?
> Nexedi has thus decided to support the /e/ foundation and its sister corporation, with the hope that /e/ would some day become a usable OS for desktop or laptop.
Good for them, I think/hope!
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#4I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this.
I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores.
But maybe I'm missing something.
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#5Any way to put E on an S7 and then relock / de-root it?
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#6Any way to put E on an S7 and then relock / de-root it?
I'm pretty sure you'll blow the Knox eFuse which can't be reset.
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#7> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme. In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well? > Nexedi has thus decided to sup…
I haven't worked with ChromeOS/ChromiumOS all that much but Chrome/Chromium aren't very different at all.
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#8I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this. I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores. But maybe I'm missing something.
I wonder if they are thermally capable of sustaining a high CPU load. Phones strike me as fairly bursty in terms of compute usage; I'm curious if running them hot for a long period of time would damage the phone.
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#9> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme. In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well? > Nexedi has thus decided to sup…
I have one qualm with /e/: they use LineageOS as their base, add a few apps, and avoid mentioning this to anyone. Most of their repos aren’t special, they’re a 1:1 copy of upstream.
I realize the license allows this but attribution would still be appreciated.
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#10Context: /e/ is simply a fork of LineageOS, so these features should work on Lineage as well. Support for USB-connected screens, docking stations etc. is going to be highly hardware dependent, but everything else should work out of the box.
AOSP derivatives are a suboptimal approach to convergence though (i.e. running the same OS on desktop/laptop and a mobile device). Ultimately, a native convergent OS such as PostmarketOS (running GNOME Phosh or KDE-Plasma Mobile) or UBPorts should work a lot more smoothly. AOSP apps should be supported via a container-based approach, as with Anbox.