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RemixOS for PC released

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Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by nailer »

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops.

Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by SG- »

nailer wrote: post #2

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops. Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design.

It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by castell »

RemixOS uses GPLv2 code (Linux, etc) and other open source licenses. They might got away with proprietary devices, their official response on their old (closed) forum was telling. But now they will have to provide it.

The idea of adding a several improvements to Android for desktop usage (improved right mouse click) is good, but why not keep it open source? Also I don't see a real business model, as Google is already working to merge Android and ChromeOS "somehow" (as indicated by news lately) and both ChromiumOS and Android are open source.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by derefr »

SG- wrote: post #4
nailer wrote: post #2

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops. Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design. It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Small-screen phones and medium-screen tablets. And some netbooks. Pretty much the same as the set of devices Windows 8's Metro UI was designed for.

Look what Windows 10 did with Metro apps: it took those "single-window designs" and just... stuck them in regular windows. And that works pretty well, it turns out.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by mankash666 »

castell wrote: post #5

RemixOS uses GPLv2 code (Linux, etc) and other open source licenses. They might got away with proprietary devices, their official response on their old (closed) forum was telling. But now they will have to provide it. The idea of adding a several improvements to Android for desktop usage (improved right mouse click) is good, but why not keep it open source? Also I don't see a real business model, as Google is already…

Because they want to profit from it. BTW - the kernel layer is GPL-ed and is already available in source form with the Ansroid x86 project.

The Android layer is Apache licensed and they are't required to open source it, or using your own misleading verbiage, they can "get away with it".

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by 746F7475 »

SG- wrote: post #4
nailer wrote: post #2

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops. Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design. It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Imo if you can run existing Android apps in resizable windows it would be a huge win. There are many well made Android apps that would work just fine as their own windowed applications
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