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Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by mintplant »

notalaser wrote: post #94
nextos wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also chrooting Debian on top of Android for some time. I really like Linux, but desktop GUI software has become quite stagnant due to excessive framework fragmentation. I have long thought that Android converging back with regular Linux is a very real possibility. It might be the case that we end up having Android as a standard desktop instead of Gnome or KDE. I'd rather have the latter, as I don't think Androi…

I've used Linux for a very long time. "Excessive framework fragmentation" hardly describes the current GTK & Qt/KDE almost-monoculture. In fact, I can't remember the last time when Linux (or any Unix derivative) was so quiet in this regard. Desktop Linux was anything but stagnant ten years ago, when there were at least three frameworks in current use (Gnome & co., KDE & co., wxWindows -- although that's not a full ap…

Archived version of the jwz.org post, since Jamie started blocking Hacker News referrers:

https://archive.is/wuAfV

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by popey »

chillingeffect wrote: post #90
dizzyviolet wrote: post #85

Just booted it. The EULA is frightening to say the least. 1. "You agree that you irrevocably waive any and all ownership, legal and moral rights to your user content." 2. You're also not allowed to oppose "the basic principles determined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China", harm it's "national honor and interests", or undermine it's "national religious policy, promoting cults and superstitions". 3.…

If this is really true [1] and not an exaggeration, there is no way on Earth I will touch this or let anyone I care about touch it with a 100-foot pole. Closed source? Waive legal rights? to my own content? Not criticize China? Not in 100 million years. Glad I switched to 100% Ubuntu. Donated and anticipating 16.04 LTS in April. It's one thing to get pressured into a gray area w/r/t freedoms in exchange for some perc…

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Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by masmullin »

timwaagh wrote: post #39

so this would be the first closed linux distro in history. An ironic milestone for the open source community. or have I missed something?

"or have I missed something?"

You've missed nearly every Android OEM build. The AOSP being open for Nexusis the exception, not the norm.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by bitL »

frik wrote: post #97
dizzyviolet wrote: post #85

Just booted it. The EULA is frightening to say the least. 1. "You agree that you irrevocably waive any and all ownership, legal and moral rights to your user content." 2. You're also not allowed to oppose "the basic principles determined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China", harm it's "national honor and interests", or undermine it's "national religious policy, promoting cults and superstitions". 3.…

If this is really true, wtf. I wonder why we see RemixOS for the third time on HN frontpage within days. On the other side Win10 eula is almost as bad. The difference is they really enforce their things and even backported some to Win7/8 disguised as security updates. Why do they get away with this? Why do we occasionally see "positiv comments" about it on HN.

Take it from the positive side - looks like there will be finally a year of Linux desktop (even if because of being pushed out of other operating systems due to their draconian terms of use)! ;-)

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by Yetanfou »

Pxtl wrote: post #63
matt_morgan wrote: post #26

I have a little box for my TV running Android. The issue with all the apps is that 90% (looking mostly at games, I guess) of them more or less expect gestural input, and are either really difficult to play or just not fun with a mouse. I doubt that particular issue is as bad in productivity apps etc., but there's a lot more to running a mobile app on a big screen than just resizing a window. Does this have some magic…

I keep wishing somebody would make an airmouse with buttons configured to simulate common touch-gestures - like put a d-pad on it for swipe up/down/left/right, and a scrollwheel simulating pinch zooms. Google keeps trying to get vendors to support their half-forgotten TV oses GoogleTV/AndroidTV, but it seems like it would be simpler to just make a peripheral that emulates the common touch actions and use let Android…

You have a mobile phone, I assume? With a touchscreen? Which does multi-touch? And the thing sports a bluetooth adapter?

In that case all you need is a program running on that phone, emulating you 'airmouse'. No need for more hardware, just use what you have. The same works for a 'normal' PC, btw. I know there are several apps for Android which can provide this service, I guess the same is true for the other contenders in this area.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

huac wrote: post #99
dizzyviolet wrote: post #85

Just booted it. The EULA is frightening to say the least. 1. "You agree that you irrevocably waive any and all ownership, legal and moral rights to your user content." 2. You're also not allowed to oppose "the basic principles determined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China", harm it's "national honor and interests", or undermine it's "national religious policy, promoting cults and superstitions". 3.…

Nearly all of that is the same as Xiaomi's EULA: http://www.mi.com/my/about/agreement/

Perhaps it is legal boilerplate for People's Republic of China companies.

Consider that an American EULA might require a "worldwide, sublicenseable, irrevocable [...]" user content license, and forbid activites illegal in the USA.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by soared »

igitur wrote: post #8

Does it run easily on a Raspberry Pi 2? It's probably mentioned somewhere else, but I suspect a lot of people here will want to know the answer.

Android needs graphic acceleration which doesn't work on the pi. So it might run but very slowly.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by voltagex_ »

masmullin wrote: post #103
timwaagh wrote: post #39

so this would be the first closed linux distro in history. An ironic milestone for the open source community. or have I missed something?

"or have I missed something?" You've missed nearly every Android OEM build. The AOSP being open for Nexusis the exception, not the norm.

Even with a Nexus there's a reasonable difference between AOSP and the Factory Image - I don't think you'll get HDR or panorama photography on AOSP (without flashing a GApps bundle)

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by huac »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #107
huac wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nearly all of that is the same as Xiaomi's EULA: http://www.mi.com/my/about/agreement/

Perhaps it is legal boilerplate for People's Republic of China companies. Consider that an American EULA might require a "worldwide, sublicenseable, irrevocable [...]" user content license, and forbid activites illegal in the USA.

the weird thing is that I don't see those terms in any other searchable, English language EULA.
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