Google should buy this now before Microsoft applies its EEE strategy on it or tries to fill it up with Cortana and stuff.
RemixOS for PC released
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#52Anyone know how they are building a desktop experience on Android?
Have they just layered a userspace on top of traditional Linux.. Or did they actually work with binder /init - > kdbus/systemd
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#53I 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 used to use Android on an old netbook --- a Toshiba AC100, ARM-based with 512MB of RAM. The netbook originally shipped with Gingerbread and was practically unusable, but after I upgraded it to Honeycomb it was a really rather comfortable thing to use.
I had Debian running in a chroot on it, so I got a combination of the Android UI with a proper Linux environment underneath it. This meant that stuff like wifi and quick wakeup and sleep all worked fine, together with Android's lightweight web browser etc. But if I wanted it, apt and all the build tools were available.
Unfortunately, since Honeycomb, each successive Android release has been steadily worse to use with a touch pad --- the Honeycomb status bar was great, the ICS action bar isn't. These days I use a Chromebook.
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#54so this would be the first closed linux distro in history. An ironic milestone for the open source community. or have I missed something?
It's more like a closed Android ROM/distro, which isn't that uncommon.
CyanogenOS isn't open source either.
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#55anyone managed to boot this off USB stick on macbook pro?
Trying to right now, there's 0 instructions provided for OSX booting other than to hold 'Option' for the boot loader which is pretty useless. Hoping I can just dd it to my SD card and have it boot. Edit: doesn't seem to want to boot from my SD card or recognize it as bootable.
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#56Do someone understand their business model? What are they planning to sell?
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#57I 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…
Hopefully they'll find a way to make something like RemixOS Android TV compatible - apps made for that respond to remote controllers rather than touch inputs.
I have a little box running Windows under my TV, and RemixOS looks very interesting as a simpler OS I could use that will still have things like Netflix streaming etc. The only downside is that I need some background services (for DVR, etc) - I'm not clear on how Linux-y RemixOS is that this would or would not be possible.
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#58I 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…
Android TV (like on my NVIDIA Shield box) is far better than any stock android. The apps are designed to be used with a controller or remote. And they work well. It is now my primary media device. The games aren't PS4 quality, but they run in 4K and everything is smooth. We use it for everything, and it's _mostly_ a good experience.
> The games aren't PS4 quality, but they run in 4K and everything is smooth.
Could you elaborate? Interested in 4K gaming without the expense of a rig. If the graphics are better, what's worse?
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#59How is this different from android-x86?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Android TV (like on my NVIDIA Shield box) is far better than any stock android. The apps are designed to be used with a controller or remote. And they work well. It is now my primary media device. The games aren't PS4 quality, but they run in 4K and everything is smooth. We use it for everything, and it's _mostly_ a good experience.
> The games aren't PS4 quality, but they run in 4K and everything is smooth. Could you elaborate? Interested in 4K gaming without the expense of a rig. If the graphics are better, what's worse?
Well, they're Android games. Mostly cheaper games ported from mobile devices. And the CPU/GPU in the machine isn't as hefty as what's in consoles; framerates and pixel quality is good but shading, etc. not.
And the big publishers aren't making big games for it. There's nothing like a Skyrim or whatever for it. There's no DVD/BD disc reader in it, so everything has to be download only, so there'd be problems distributing games of that size anyways.
The best games to show off 4K are vector games like Geometry Wars, etc. They look great and are snappy and fun.
It's also pretty good for emulators, once you get all your ROMs on and get the controller mapped correctly. I've even got Dolphin running a few Gamecube games at mostly acceptable quality, tho not consistently.