Re:The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5
by eeZah7Ux on Sunday October 27, 2019 @04:09PM
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> smart engineers from Google
Questionable.
> well-tested and maintained
Not really.
> well-documented
Not really.
> has permissions and isolation for apps which Debian doesn't have
Having compared google play and the apt-get ecosystem, I cannot trust the first.
Also, Debian has seccomp, cgroups and the tooling required to provide very fine-grained access control.
> has several app stores including FDroid and lots of apps made by independent developers
True
> Are there some technical or licensing issues
Concentration of power; monopoly; corporate surveillance
> Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?
There is no "they use in Ubuntu". It's a distribution. It benefits from application written in two dozen languages and most people don't want to rewrite applications in java.
> UPD: Also 3 Gb of RAM might be not enough for Debian/Ubuntu based OS.
Nonsense. I was using it with 32MB of RAM. Now 4 and I have free memory while running 2 browsers.
Questionable.
> well-tested and maintained
Not really.
> well-documented
Not really.
> has permissions and isolation for apps which Debian doesn't have
Having compared google play and the apt-get ecosystem, I cannot trust the first.
Also, Debian has seccomp, cgroups and the tooling required to provide very fine-grained access control.
> has several app stores including FDroid and lots of apps made by independent developers
True
> Are there some technical or licensing issues
Concentration of power; monopoly; corporate surveillance
> Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?
There is no "they use in Ubuntu". It's a distribution. It benefits from application written in two dozen languages and most people don't want to rewrite applications in java.
> UPD: Also 3 Gb of RAM might be not enough for Debian/Ubuntu based OS.
Nonsense. I was using it with 32MB of RAM. Now 4 and I have free memory while running 2 browsers.