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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by panic on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:10PM (#14354163)
The website is super polished and doesn't mention anything about being alpha quality. It would be easy to install this on your phone without any idea you were making yourself vulnerable.
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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by X-Cubed on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:15PM (#14354526)
It's version 0.4, so it's a pre-release build.
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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by omribahumi on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:00AM (#14356227)
Putty is 18 years old and only reached 0.69
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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by vanderZwan on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:25AM (#14356828)
Fair enough, but this project is slightly less than a year old[0], so let's give it the benefit of doubt.

[0] https://github.com/maruos/maruos/commits/master

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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by rickycook on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:27PM (#14355139)
welllll, so are plenty of packages people install into production software every day. i think pre release means less to people these days.

and sure, you can blame it on the people using the software, but that doesn't stop a bunch of ssh servers with default credentials being open to the network.

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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by contingencies on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:39AM (#14355916)
super polished

My definition of super polished includes 'renders without javascript enabled'.

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Re:Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone by adrianN on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:01AM (#14356008)
I tend to agree, but the non-technical user that might make themselves vulnerable by installing weird OSs on their phone (already a rare beast) will most likely not run without Javascript.
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