> Which company is behind this?

This is the only thing I found with some limited googling:

> Our team is very experienced in making gadgets. They are experts from Xiaomi/OPPO/Google/Ubuntu and other Consumer Electronic Companies. So what we are talking about here is not a low-end tablet for geeks and Linux users. It will be designed just like a tablet for consumers with the best quality we can achieve.

From: https://www.facebook.com/JingOSfb/posts/the-idea-of-making-a...

> Our team is very experienced in making gadgets. They are experts from Xiaomi/OPPO/Google/Ubuntu and other Consumer Electronic Companies.

Interestingly, JingOS's About page [1] uses similar words but different companies:

> Our team is very experienced. They are experts from Lenovo, Alibaba, Sumsung, Canonical/Ubuntu, Trolltech and other famous IT Companies.

[1]: https://www.jingos.com/about/

> Trolltech

Trolltech, the creator of the Qt framework, became part of Nokia in 2008 and doesn't exist any more as a company since. So it's a rather strange reference.

Wouldn't be surprised as it seems to be based in China. There are no shortage of tech talents that used to work in these big IT companies. Be interested to see how they stay true the FOSS principles and make this OS support more devices.

Any competitions to existing duopoly are good.

sounds a bit like OnePlus's OxygenOS

OxygenOS is an Android fork (or reskin, if you're being less generous). It's much harder to get linux to behave reasonably on a tablet if you're not starting with Android.

I don't know if there's any shared code, but it looks like it's related to this Chinese project:

https://fydeos.com/

Not sure if it's the same company, but this ICP number also owns flintos.com;

https://icplishi.com/%E4%BA%ACICP%E5%A4%8716065045%E5%8F%B7/

FydeOS used to be FlintOS

There is a link to https://fydeos.com/ at the bottom of the page. Fydeos is a friend project.

Who from HN would install a Chinese OS by choice? We have our own privacy issues from western companies, but at least we can hold them (minimally) accountable.

If you are in Europe or any other place than the US, you are basically powerless to American big tech.

Encouraging competition and using software from smaller companies, Chinese or not, is our only chance to level this.

I wouldn't say Europeans are powerless against american companies. Legally speaking, yes, but then so are Americans themselves. The only thing we can do nowadays is public outrage. Doesn't matter who writes the medium blog post, as long as it hits MAJOR_SOCIAL_NETWORK frontpage.

Well, if it is truly open source and has reasonably reproducible builds, I would absolutely use it.

Unfortunately most Chinese suppliers don't take their GPLv2 obligations very serious when it comes to Linux kernel drivers for example. If these new(?) players do, I can only applaud it.

The lack of transparency in who they are isn't really raising my hopes...