Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future

buovjaga | 97 points

Nice!

I think Nix and NixOS is the best thing that happened to the Linux ecosystem in the last ten years. Good that it spreads to mobile.

k__ | 5 years ago

> Any device not allowing that is, simply put, not respecting the intelligence of the user.

This is kind of a silly absolutist opinion. Sure, you should have an option to have a completely open mobile OS... but to say that any OS with other priorities than complete “openness” is disrespectful is to throw literally every other consideration to the wind. I mean... really, what about security?

Ideologues tend to forget about reality, sometimes, it seems. Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user.

I can’t help but feel like ideologically driven projects like often almost immediately discredit themselves with crap like this. Their software comes off as about making some statement, not providing something great, novel, and beneficial to people.

ImNotTheNSA | 5 years ago

Interesting.

I am thinking of making Sciter Engine as a chrome for mobile devices. So mobile UI can be defined in terms of HTML/CSS with code-behind-UI written in C/C++ or script.

Conceptually that would be close to FirefoxOS but more inclined into native side. Or at least will have more flexibility in this respect.

Is it interesting at all?

c-smile | 5 years ago

I would love to have deduplication on OS on mobile; it is a horror to go back to previous state.

Do you plan on allowing other projects such as AOSP forks, UT, Sailfish, postmarketOS to work on top if Mobile NixOS? So a project like Mer was?

[Edit: To answer my own question: GitHub page says its heavily based on postmarketOS]

Fnoord | 5 years ago

I'm just waiting for them to solve the problem of the package manager taking multiple gigabytes of memory to run. My last experience with it involved a lot of "unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory". It's insane that a package manager would even exceed even 100mb of memory usage, let alone run into multiple gigabytes. No way there's that much information to manage.

kstenerud | 5 years ago

Are you thinking regular NixOS with kde or more like notOS + sway?

ingenieroariel | 5 years ago

It would be nice if I could use NixOS through Termux on Android.

fsiefken | 5 years ago

Very excited to use this and buy a librem 5 for it.

Ericson2314 | 5 years ago