On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 02:49:32PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hello folks, >
Have a look at inferno. http://inferno-os.org/ -- hendrik > > 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 > i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
