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Previously, Maru OS, an operating system for mobiles that senses the peripherals connected and will switch from handheld to desktop mode, was closed-source and would only run on a Nexus 5.
LWN (formerly Linux Weekly News) has published a message they received from the Maru OS Project.
I'm happy to announce that Maru has been fully open-sourced under The Maru OS Project!
There are many reasons that led me to open-source Maru, but a particularly important one is expanding Maru's device support with the help of the community.
If you'd like to help out with a device port (even just offering to test a new build helps a lot), let the community know on the device port planning list.[1]
We currently have a few Nexus, LG, and Motorola builds being planned. If you don't see your device on there and would like to help with development or testing, please do chip in and we'll get it added to the list.
If you're interested in contributing in general, please check out the project's GitHub, get up and running with the developer guide, and join the developer group.[2]
Our previous discussions of Maru OS.
[1][2] archive.li will run the scripts for you.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday September 01 2016, @04:29PM
Do the idiot marketeers believe their tiny rag is so well-known they can be recognized as LWN? They're not even the damn New Music Express, let alone CNN.
Tips for better submissions to help our site grow. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @05:02PM
Perhaps because LWN IS well established for Linux (as in Linux Kernel) news but the name has since been misleading as LWN also covers other news than Linux (as in ecosystem) and it covers it more than weekly. As the acronym was already well established for their core audience I guess it was a simple matter of switching to the acronym so the name would not be misleading (as it also covers some general Unix or BSD news and also the Linux ecosystem and other matters related to them).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @08:12PM
Why the anger?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @09:25PM
You made me think of Jimmy Dore, [jimmydorecomedy.com] a guy who does politically-tinged humor.
He likes to remind folks that one of the N's in CNN stands for "News"; the other stands for "not".
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As to the AC's point, I like to know what abbreviations in company names stand for.
...and I like to include that in my submissions so that other folks who might be curious won't have to chase that down themselves.
It bugs me when they make that difficult to find and there are some places where I haven't found out yet if their letters stand for anything. 8-|
...but it doesn't especially bother me when e.g. KFC doesn't want to identified with "fried" any longer.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:45PM
The KFC thing does bug me a bit.
I saved a flier from KFC showing their historical chicken buckets.
Essentially, through mass advertising, they are forcing the general population to memorize that information above: so that the can keep their packaging looking clean and uncluttered.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday September 02 2016, @12:32AM
Taken to its logical conclusion, they will not print anything on their packaging at all. Customers will have to open the boxes to know ones which are from KFC and which are from other restaurants--quite an inconvenience!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Friday September 02 2016, @04:36AM
No. That's what the shape and the color are for. Remember the MS retail boxes with one rounded corner?