📰 New, ambitious project aims to bring Linux mobile devices back to the consumer market
"A project that has recently got the attention of many FOSS journalists is the JingOS Linux distribution, coming from China and offering an explicitly "iPadOS-style" user interface according to its website. However, this is just the beginning of the project.
The fil rouge connecting the varied target market (now x86_64, to be expanded..."
Read more: https://tuxphones.com/linux-distro-jingos-phone-qt-touch-friendly-jingotab/ #linux
@bart Is that based on Plasma Mobile? Interesting.
@tuxdevices Yup. They released the source of their fork of Kalk from Plasma Mobile https://github.com/JingOS-team/jing-kalk/
@bart thanks! that's... unexpected, hopefully they will also join forces working upstream with them?
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@tuxdevices So far, not a fan. It's a fork of Plasma Mobile but without everything being FOSS from the get go. I wonder if they'll release the sources of everything when they release the first device images.
So far it's "yet another effort"... I rather see them helping out Plasma Mobile tbh