Crickets... On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 6:57:49 PM UTC-8 Rich Morin wrote:
> Background > > There are a couple billion cell phones (and counting) floating around the > world. Many of these aren't able to run current releases of the vendors' > software or support heavyweight GUIs and other graphical applications. > > So, their utility (and hence, commercial value) isn't all that great, so > most of them end up getting recycled, dumped into landfill, etc. This seems > like a shame, given that these are pretty capable portable computers. > > PostmarketOS (pmOS) has the goal of putting together a "real" Linux > distribution (based on Alpine Linux) for these devices. After a number of > years of effort, they seem to be making Real Progress (TM). FYI, aarch64 is > by far the best supported architecture. Here are some links, for the > curious: > > https://postmarketos.org/ > https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices > > Notion > > I'm interested in the possibility of putting together a software stack > which would provide blind-accessible computing and communications > capabilities. It _could_ sit directly on top of pmOS, but that would tie it > rather closely to the pmOS and Alpine Linux projects. This doesn't seem > like the most flexible or robust plan... > > So, I'm wondering whether it might make sense to use some sort of VM to > isolate the underlying OS from the user-facing software. This might, for > example, be based on Debian, which has a pretty active accessibility effort: > > https://www.debian.org/ > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/ > > I've used Vagrant in the past and really like its (text-based and VM > neutral) approach. So, it would be a logical piece of infrastructure for > this effort. However, I'm pretty clueless about which VMs might work well > for this. > > Might anyone have clues to offer? > > -r > > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues Discuss: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/vagrant/24 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/47fd526b-57a4-4406-8e23-a9065312b301n%40googlegroups.com.
