Hi Jonas, > Am 21.05.2019 um 11:00 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: > > First of all, congratulations with the progress!
Thanks! > > > Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2019-05-21 10:22:50) >> BTW, here is another trick: You may (not) know that LetuxOS images >> created by makesd come rooted. This means you can simply ssh as root >> into the device without password check. This is quite helpful for >> developers and debugging. > > A password-less network-accesible backdoor maybe unknown to the system > owner sounds dangerous to me: I recommend documenting that very clearly > (at least) everywhere passwords are currently menioned in documentation. Yes, please feel free to document it in the Wiki. > > >> On a very general view, we have achieved a lot, but still not enough >> to get the LetuxOS eco-system into a self-sustaining mode. What is >> lacking? >> >> * users are missing because software is not good enough for daily use >> * hardware is missing because potential users complain about missing >> high-quality software >> * developers to polish the software are missing, because of missing >> (new) hardware >> >> You see the vicious circle? Ideas how to magically break it? > > Contributing as certified OSHW your own work on designing hardware helps > encourage developers contributing to getting the devices supported in > mainline linux and u-boot. > > Getting bootloader and kernel code mainlined encourage distributors > integrate and maintain support the the devices in their distributions. > > Having devices supported in distributions helps users prioritize the > devices over other (lesser free) options available to them. This seems to assume that LetuxOS is not itself a distribution. So what do you think would help users to prioritize LetuxOS over other distributions? BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
