Looking for a desktop environment suitable for use as a phone interface in FreeBSD installed on a phone.

Beastie7 said:
And what device will all of this be installed on?

Without cellular baesband and/or SoC GPU drivers this whole idea is pointless. You need to start with the base system first.
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The consumer industry is a problem. It's boarded up against the situation of the operator of the system controlling all buttons. This is why smartphones are pretty much limited to Android or iOS. Smartphones are an artificially separated class of computers that force the user in a sandbox with strict boundaries. You can't even run an ARM binary on your ARM computer...
 
Beastie7 said:
And what device will all of this be installed on?

Without cellular baesband and/or SoC GPU drivers this whole idea is pointless. You need to start with the base system first.
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I've already created the basic of the phone,porting the wi-fi and the GPU driver from Linux.

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MG said:
The consumer industry is a problem. It's boarded up against the situation of the operator of the system controlling all buttons. This is why smartphones are pretty much limited to Android or iOS. Smartphones are an artificially separated class of computers that force the user in a sandbox with strict boundaries. You can't even run an ARM binary on your ARM computer...
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Linux phones exist. Like Liberty and Pine. Same can be done with FreeBSD. Should it be done? As a challenging hobby project, yes. As AI slop, no. Pure waste of tokens for absolutely nothing.
 
This is the Trump phone (more or less) :


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The code that I've produced is working. So,I'm not sure if it is a SLOP. For sure it should be improved and I will do it over time,but for now It is pretty stable.

So,now,can we restart to talk about how the Desktop manager should be ? I have placed a lot of meat on the table. Not all the options I listed are worth to be developed.
 
MrBSD said:
I fixed your post.
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I don't like your correction. Claude doesn't work alone. I'm the one who gives it direction, yes, even though I don't know how to program, I understand the direction it's taking, the mistakes it's making, if the information it has is wrong, etc. I'm not a complete neophyte. And before all,the responsibility of what it does is mine. Even if I'm not a programmer.
 
ZioMario said:
I don't like your correction. Claude doesn't work alone. I'm the one who gives it direction, yes, even though I don't know how to program, I understand the direction he's taking, the mistakes he's making, if the information he has is wrong, etc. I'm not a complete neophyte.
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Im done man...
 
MrBSD said:
Linux phones exist. Like Liberty and Pine. Same can be done with FreeBSD. Should it be done? As a challenging hobby project, yes. As AI slop, no. Pure waste of tokens for absolutely nothing.
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It shouldn't be a massive complicated procedure. If the hardware is known and supported, you can boot an USB image. FreeBSD can run on most CPU's but they are almost always rigged with a locked bootloader and if not, it gets no mobile connection for being an untrusted device that doesn't run the box kernel.
 
Is the cross posting a violation of some rule
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Not at all just saying they tend to be quite toxic on reddit
when it comes to ai generated posts

tends to be the younger generation for some reason
was just a heads up that you are more likely to get grief than a sound technical answer
 
Older Motorola, Samsung and Pixel phones are well known and fully hacked. I remember old LG phones where you can dual boot Windows CE and Android. Unfortunately, such hardware is way too old for these kids that need 8K display resolution and 150 Megapixel octa lens camera. Which brings us to original conclusion. Its completely pointless and useless. In this very case, there is nothing to learn and nothing to gain.
 
ZioMario said:
This is the Trump phone (more or less) :


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The code that I've produced is working. So,I'm not sure if it is a SLOP. For sure it should be improved and I will do it over time,but for now It is pretty stable.

So,now,can we restart to talk about how the Desktop manager should be ? I have placed a lot of meat on the table. Not all the options I listed are worth to be developed.
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You can dissolve the plugs with paint thinner and then isolate the exposed wires with cellulose spray. It gets much smaller of that. 😆
 
All of the open source phone "desktop" are linux based
Or Android like grapheneos

eg Ubuntu touch Plasma mobile, sailfishos
and they havent made much of a in road into the phone market

The issue trying to get them to run is if they depend on systemd ( which wont work at all )
or sys calls that the linuxuxlator doesnt support

Or trying to strip everything out to get it to work natively on Freebsd
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
All of the open source phone "desktop" are linux based
Or Android like grapheneos

eg Ubuntu touch Plasma mobile, sailfishos
and they havent made much of a in road into the phone market

The issue trying to get them to run is if they depend on systemd ( which wont work at all )
or sys calls that the linuxuxlator doesnt support

Or trying to strip everything out to get it to work natively on Freebsd
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How does that dependency work? The hardware only agrees with a specific systemd executable that comes after the kernel?
 
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