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I failed to understand anything specific from their page. All feels buzzwordy without much concrete information. I'm very curious what is soluos. I'm assuming t

by Gonzih 11y ago

I failed to understand anything specific from their page. All feels buzzwordy without much concrete information. I'm very curious what is soluos. I'm assuming that it's some kind of linux, but what is on top. What does it mean to be "cloud connected os"? How open will be os? What is toolkit for app developers? Is it android or something web based or something different? I'm very curious about the project but at the same time a bit sceptical based on the information they currently provide about the project. PS. soluos sounds is very close to solusos - old linux distro that was maintaining legacy gnome2.0? PPS would love to run a linux on a tiny portable device like that.

elnygren 11y ago
You might want to think it as "SoluOS". Solu a is the Finnish word for "cell" (as in the cell in biology) - the team behind this is from Finland. I totally agree with you on the lack of concrete info. From what I've seen/heard the OS itself is built on top of Linux and Android and apps can be developed with the HTML5 stack (and I suppose with Android's tools ?). To be honest even after seeing some private technical demos, I was still left quite confused... The main problem with this project is that the SoluOS itself is mainly a UI/UX innovation, but for some reason they had to provide HW and OS too. Why can't I install this on my Mac/Linux laptop ?
- alexanderfinn 11y ago
  Your question actually contains a bug portion of the answer :) User experience is not limited to the the graphical user interface, it involves all the aspects of a person interacting with computer and its infrastructure. This involves hardware and software. We could've done it with just software (although it's not just UI, we had to significantly change OS internals too) but that wouldn't allow us to achieve our vision of human-computer interaction. Disclaimer: I work for Solu.

by Gonzih 11y ago

elnygren 11y ago

You might want to think it as "SoluOS". Solu a is the Finnish word for "cell" (as in the cell in biology) - the team behind this is from Finland. I totally agree with you on the lack of concrete info. From what I've seen/heard the OS itself is built on top of Linux and Android and apps can be developed with the HTML5 stack (and I suppose with Android's tools ?). To be honest even after seeing some private technical demos, I was still left quite confused... The main problem with this project is that the SoluOS itself is mainly a UI/UX innovation, but for some reason they had to provide HW and OS too. Why can't I install this on my Mac/Linux laptop ?

alexanderfinn 11y ago
Your question actually contains a bug portion of the answer :) User experience is not limited to the the graphical user interface, it involves all the aspects of a person interacting with computer and its infrastructure. This involves hardware and software. We could've done it with just software (although it's not just UI, we had to significantly change OS internals too) but that wouldn't allow us to achieve our vision of human-computer interaction. Disclaimer: I work for Solu.