RemixOS -- Android for the PC
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Just stumbled across this a couple of days ago... http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc
It's basically an Android system that has been made to run with a desktop, much like Android x86, but different, lol.
They appear to have added multi-windowing and such to the system. I haven't installed it yet, but I'm going to give it ago and see how it does.
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Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
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Really? Why do you think that?
I suppose if they can make it ack more like Windows, with windowed applications, then maybe, but if full screen or nothing - well we're right back to Windows 8 and Metro apps. And you see how well that went over on desktops.
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@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
It's built around Android Lollipop (5.1.x), so it should be at least up to par with Android... if that says anything (good or bad, ha ha)
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@Dashrender said:
Really? Why do you think that?
I suppose if they can make it ack more like Windows, with windowed applications, then maybe, but if full screen or nothing - well we're right back to Windows 8 and Metro apps. And you see how well that went over on desktops.
This is kinda going the other way... it's taking a touch screen based setup, and making it more friendly for desktops. Supposedly it will be a competitor to ChromeOS.
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@dafyre said:
@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
It's built around Android Lollipop (5.1.x), so it should be at least up to par with Android... if that says anything (good or bad, ha ha)
Not probably going to be a good thing right now: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?vendor_id=1224. Hopefully something like this will expose the flaws more broadly and force Google to do something regarding fragmentation and critical patching on non-Nexus systems.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender said:
Really? Why do you think that?
I suppose if they can make it ack more like Windows, with windowed applications, then maybe, but if full screen or nothing - well we're right back to Windows 8 and Metro apps. And you see how well that went over on desktops.
This is kinda going the other way... it's taking a touch screen based setup, and making it more friendly for desktops. Supposedly it will be a competitor to ChromeOS.
I wouldn't want to use Chrome OS on a desktop either. Laptop maybe.
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@Kelly said:
@dafyre said:
@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
It's built around Android Lollipop (5.1.x), so it should be at least up to par with Android... if that says anything (good or bad, ha ha)
Not probably going to be a good thing right now: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?vendor_id=1224. Hopefully something like this will expose the flaws more broadly and force Google to do something regarding fragmentation and critical patching on non-Nexus systems.
How do you propose solving the fragmentation problem? The Android base is open source and free to use. That the root of the problem right there.
Toss on the fact that the carriers don't give a shit about supporting devices 30 seconds after they leave their store, it's no wonder that we have millions of hackable computers floating all over this little ball of blue light.
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@Dashrender said:
@Kelly said:
@dafyre said:
@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
It's built around Android Lollipop (5.1.x), so it should be at least up to par with Android... if that says anything (good or bad, ha ha)
Not probably going to be a good thing right now: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?vendor_id=1224. Hopefully something like this will expose the flaws more broadly and force Google to do something regarding fragmentation and critical patching on non-Nexus systems.
How do you propose solving the fragmentation problem? The Android base is open source and free to use. That the root of the problem right there.
Toss on the fact that the carriers don't give a shit about supporting devices 30 seconds after they leave their store, it's no wonder that we have millions of hackable computers floating all over this little ball of blue light.
I have no idea, but I'm not being paid meelions of dollars to fix it
I could throw out some options, but none of them would make anyone happy except the carriers. -
There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.
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@Kelly said:
There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.
How would you force the update on the phone, constant prompting, and after so many prompts it's just forced?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Kelly said:
There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.
How would you force the update on the phone, constant prompting, and after so many prompts it's just forced?
If what I suggested above happens, the carriers will likely disable data on the device until it is patched.
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@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Interesting. I think that Android is going to be a big deal on the desktop once they get rolling with it.
And is going to make Windows XP pre SP1 look like a well patched, secure computing platform...
LOL, possibly. But if Android doesn't come from a carrier, I think that it is a good OS. It's only that people CAN get crappy versions of it that is a problem. The issue is only that Android doesn't have a license to protect users from abusive providers like iOS does. Not actually Android's fault, but it is an Android shortcoming.
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@Kelly .... data service the thing you need to patch the device, unless you have access to WiFi...
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender said:
Really? Why do you think that?
I suppose if they can make it ack more like Windows, with windowed applications, then maybe, but if full screen or nothing - well we're right back to Windows 8 and Metro apps. And you see how well that went over on desktops.
This is kinda going the other way... it's taking a touch screen based setup, and making it more friendly for desktops. Supposedly it will be a competitor to ChromeOS.
I wonder what the "real" upside to that is? Games, of course. But beyond that?
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Kelly said:
There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.
How would you force the update on the phone, constant prompting, and after so many prompts it's just forced?
That's how I thought apple did it.
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@Dashrender said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@Kelly said:
There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.
How would you force the update on the phone, constant prompting, and after so many prompts it's just forced?
That's how I thought apple did it.
Nope, they just nag forever.
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Almost nothing today requires updates. But updates would solve so many problems on the internet.
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@Dashrender said:
Almost nothing today requires updates. But updates would solve so many problems on the internet.
You're wrong about the first part.
Everything needs to be updates on a regular basis.
