I know what they mean but technically Android is Linux too?
Android runs a Linux kernel, but it’s not GNU/Linux.
It’s GNot/Linux
I only use GNU+Windows NT.
… do you mean GNU+Linux?
Mmmm hopefully it’ll be buggy enough to be hacked and flashed with a proper distro
On the surface this seems great. I trust nothing from Amazon though.
Waiting to see how normal Linux it is. Could be a boon for community Linux touchscreen distributions if they move Fire tablets to it as well. Amazon must regret giving up on phones after only one Fire phone
Maybe they’ll use and contribute to Plasma Bigscreen? Probably not, but I’d love to see Bigscreen get more love.
Nevermind, articles like this suggest it’s all going to be proprietary to give Amazon greater control, which honestly I’d be more surprised if they did make something more open: https://en.todoandroid.es/Amazon-Vega-OS%3A-Everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-Fire-OS-replacement/
Could endanger side loading on Fire TV sticks which currently is as easy as installing an APK.
No, it would just start that whole process over.
Well, at least on a more positive side, if we can find out how to emulate these things we might finaly have 4k streams on Linux
These are really weak devices. They aren’t doing that in software. It’s hardware decode, which means a they will likely use a vendor binary blob.
How well does this type of emulation work?
For example, can you emulate a netflix certified device on an non-certified ARM device (if it’s powerful enough).
