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Furilabs Linux Phone

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223 points nikodunk | 5 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.615s | source
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bsimpson ◴[14 Oct 24 18:42 UTC] No.41840522[source]▶
It's surprising to me that there aren't any details about the software stack.

Whenever I've tried to find a touch-optimized Linux shell, I've come up short. As has been discussed on this forum in the past, most of the attempts are understaffed side projects that have thousands of manhours of work ahead of them.

I'd like to know what shell FuriOS is based on, and what they're doing to make it usable. Even a demo video would go a long way!

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1. GranPC ◴[14 Oct 24 19:18 UTC] No.41840890[source]▶
I'll write something in the dev blog, thanks. We use Phosh, with some minor patches. Upstream Phosh is pretty good as it is!
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2. bsimpson ◴[14 Oct 24 19:51 UTC] No.41841197[source]▶
I haven't been able to try Phosh because it's badly packaged on NixOS.

Maybe one day I'll take a stab at fixing their package.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/278204

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3. bsimpson ◴[14 Oct 24 19:52 UTC] No.41841217[source]▶
Glad to see you engaging the community!

As someone unfamiliar with Furilabs, it wouldn't occur to me to go looking for a dev blog to see if you've written anything about the shell. I feel like that's information you'd want to link from the marketing page (even if the details are on your blog).

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4. GranPC ◴[14 Oct 24 20:19 UTC] No.41841481[source]▶
Community is what got me here in the first place. :)

Fair enough! Noted.

5. mixmastamyk ◴[15 Oct 24 16:47 UTC] No.41850479[source]▶
Recent phosh is packaged on Fedora. I’m critical but also pretty happy with it. Biggest disappointment is that many gnome apps are not as touchscreen friendly as was promised.