Hello folks,
maybe a bit offtopic, but allow me to announce the FlyingTux project: It's an build/runtime infrastructure for running desktop and mobile applications in containers and build an entirely container-based mobile OS based on it. The primary motivation is my long frustration about the monstreaus and practically unmaintainable Android, which also still lacks lots of common management abilities we know from the GNU/Linux world. In some ways, FT can be seen as an conceptional combination of containers (docker, k8s, etc) and apps (android, etc). One major difference is that also the app images are based on some defined distro base (for start, just alpine, others to follow later) and the images are created on the host, based on host specific settings like hw setups (eg. automatically deploys the right mesa drivers). In future steps some packages of the app distro base (called 'osbase# here) will be replaced or customized, in order to provide better integration with the ecosystem and strip unneeded stuff. Another key difference is moving common functionality (eg. various data sources, communication protocols, ...) out of the individual apps into generic services - and the binding between individual apps and actual services instances can be customized by the user (e.g. one can bind some apps to fake gps instead of the real one, separate address books or user directories, etc, etc). Here's a more detailed description: https://github.com/metux/flyingtux/blob/master/README Note that for now its very experimental and fast changing. Don't expect anything field-ready yet. But it's already good enought to isolate some common desktop apps like gimp, chrome, etc. --mtx -- --- Hinweis: unverschlüsselte E-Mails können leicht abgehört und manipuliert werden ! Für eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren GPG/PGP-Schlüssel zu. --- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering [email protected] -- +49-151-27565287 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
