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Surprised someone didn't make an Android competitor with Inferno OS. It was already part way there to being a mobile OS.
by shimon_e 9y ago
Surprised someone didn't make an Android competitor with Inferno OS. It was already part way there to being a mobile OS.
- yiyus 9y agoThe Hellaphone was an idea in that direction. They substituted all the Java bits in Android with Inferno: http://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2 http://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2
- squarefoot 9y agoToo bad they didn't continue its development. Probably choosing a different GUI than TK would have helped to spark more people's interest in the project. There's a huge need for an alternative OS on Android phones, but most of the people who would benefit from it don't know that, so that need doesn't translate to actual demand.
- erikj 9y agoWhat's wrong with Tk, exactly?
- squarefoot 9y agoEverything and nothing, depending if you're a hacker or a common user.
- andrewflnr 9y agoActually, it's pretty bad for both. It's both ugly (which users hate) and a pain to develop for if you want to do anything slightly unconventional.
- floren 9y agoThe pain of developing it was one reason I didn't do much with Hellaphone after that summer. Other reasons: lack of funding and no spare phone to use if I wanted to develop it on my own time.
- rcarmo 9y agoI don't see Tk as being a problem. Rio, however, and the continued reliance upon 3-button mice, dates both Plan9 and Inferno and makes it quite hard to use them on laptops with trackpads.
- walshemj 9y agowhat's wrong with three button mice? virtualy all pc's outwith macs that use mac mice use three button mouse's
- mjl- 9y ago"part way there", but certainly still a long way to go. even only because people want slick ui's, not a strong point of plan 9/inferno.