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JingOS v0.8 – Linux-based tablet OS

18 points by pekinlcc 6y ago

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edwinhaobababa 6y ago
great product, waiting for 1.0
JunZhang123 6y ago
Come on!
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emteycz 6y ago
Any particular reason why you use "WLAN" instead of "WiFi"? In my mind WiFi would be much easier to comprehend.
- maxnoe 6y ago
  Probably the authors are German, WLAN is the more usual term here.
- swiley 6y ago
  On most of my devices the WiFi card is called "wlan0."
bitcraft 6y ago
Where’s the source?
- pekinlcc 6y ago
  https://github.com/JingOS-team https://github.com/JingOS-team
fgg1991 6y ago
playing steam on it, bravo!
swiley 6y ago
What's going on here? third party requests to baidu and a bunch of new accounts praising it? EDIT: The github also claims it's the first Linux tablet OS but it's clearly predated by PMOS (which I'm typing this on.) A lot of it looks like a fork of plasma mobile? EDIT2: looking more closely at their github account: all the commits (to master anyway) are just modifications of README and LISENCE files.
monkey_monkey 6y ago
Looks interesting – what can this be installed on? Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap tablet that could be used to test this out?
- pekinlcc 6y ago
  Any computer that can run Ubuntu 20.04 should be able to run JingOS
dTal 6y ago
This looks like an interesting and timely project, but the marketing is... weird. It's strange seeing an advertising tone in a github repository, and the blatant astroturfing in this thread fills me with distrust (some of the comments have now been deleted outright; there were half a dozen when I made this comment). edit: and I just saw this: Is JingOS going to be opensource? And free software? Yes, JingOS will open-source step by step. We will update the Github project every half year. And JingOS will be free forever. What is JingOS based on? JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20. I don't think that flies, if binary releases are more frequent than that. You can't just fork Ubuntu, make some changes, make a binary release, and keep the source to yourself for half a year; that's a GPL violation.
offtop5 6y ago
So while I applaud the effort here, it seems to be much safer to buy a Surface Tablet and then install Ubuntu and KDE on it. I have no idea who's behind this Jing OS. How do you make money? The tablet you're going to crowdfund is likely to be played by hardware issues as making hardware is extremely difficult on a limited budget. What would be cool is if you wrote a script to install the OS on a tablet PC which already exist, and then either ask for donations or sell merchandise. Or, rely off app store revenue

18 points by pekinlcc 6y ago

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edwinhaobababa 6y ago

great product, waiting for 1.0

JunZhang123 6y ago

Come on!

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emteycz 6y ago

Any particular reason why you use "WLAN" instead of "WiFi"? In my mind WiFi would be much easier to comprehend.

maxnoe 6y ago
Probably the authors are German, WLAN is the more usual term here.
swiley 6y ago
On most of my devices the WiFi card is called "wlan0."

bitcraft 6y ago

Where’s the source?

pekinlcc 6y ago
https://github.com/JingOS-team https://github.com/JingOS-team

fgg1991 6y ago

playing steam on it, bravo!

swiley 6y ago

What's going on here? third party requests to baidu and a bunch of new accounts praising it? EDIT: The github also claims it's the first Linux tablet OS but it's clearly predated by PMOS (which I'm typing this on.) A lot of it looks like a fork of plasma mobile? EDIT2: looking more closely at their github account: all the commits (to master anyway) are just modifications of README and LISENCE files.

monkey_monkey 6y ago

Looks interesting – what can this be installed on? Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap tablet that could be used to test this out?

pekinlcc 6y ago
Any computer that can run Ubuntu 20.04 should be able to run JingOS

dTal 6y ago

This looks like an interesting and timely project, but the marketing is... weird. It's strange seeing an advertising tone in a github repository, and the blatant astroturfing in this thread fills me with distrust (some of the comments have now been deleted outright; there were half a dozen when I made this comment). edit: and I just saw this: Is JingOS going to be opensource? And free software? Yes, JingOS will open-source step by step. We will update the Github project every half year. And JingOS will be free forever. What is JingOS based on? JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20. I don't think that flies, if binary releases are more frequent than that. You can't just fork Ubuntu, make some changes, make a binary release, and keep the source to yourself for half a year; that's a GPL violation.

offtop5 6y ago

So while I applaud the effort here, it seems to be much safer to buy a Surface Tablet and then install Ubuntu and KDE on it. I have no idea who's behind this Jing OS. How do you make money? The tablet you're going to crowdfund is likely to be played by hardware issues as making hardware is extremely difficult on a limited budget. What would be cool is if you wrote a script to install the OS on a tablet PC which already exist, and then either ask for donations or sell merchandise. Or, rely off app store revenue