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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think Canonical pitched this about 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

10 years ago was the time to start, too.

Imagine a Linux-like OS for mobile as a reasonable 3rd mobile operating system. People would run it and seem weird like when people run Linux on their laptop nowadays. 1-2% market share. Basically nothing is native to it but a handful of open source apps, but waydroid would be more complete. That would be beautiful.

Shoot. Imagine a reasonably new phone running something Linux with a shell laptop that lets you properly converge. Linux has the best ARM support because basically anything can be complied.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's what Samsung tried with Dex. You could even run an honest to god (emulated) Linux on it. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and no one knows about it today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just a small community of 33.7k people on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dex could have been the dream. That wm, it's soo bad. Then the apps have too much control over their resize and only one instance of an app running.

I could have daily driven it if it was just a little more consistent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Shame that it's closed source and by Samsung. :/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but to be fair it seems more feasible now. Maybe one day!