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

Never thought someone would port FreeBSD to Pinephone and I thought the product is discontinued.

From normal user pov, scrollable tiling window definitely a good use case here assuming lower level hardware work well enough with FreeBSD.
 
cracauer@ said:
Why?
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Because the form factor and look and feel of the BB have always fascinated me. And because armv7 on FreeBSD is running out of time. It makes sense, perhaps, while it's still supported. Also, I've never liked the BB desktop manager in terms of usability and ease of use.
 
ZioMario said:
What I want is not the attention. I wanted to talk about what I have asked on the first message. No one after the first message replied in a coherent manner (except few users), and after having tried to get you back to the topic,this one :
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No one here has done this, it's impossible to provide you with sound advice.

The only thing I can tell is that you don't need to be right first time. Trial and error is the most common way of learning. There's even a rule called "Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers" quoted in "More Programming Pearls: Confessions Of A Coder" that says:

It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.
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So what I suggest is you choose the option that looks easiest to you and begin with that. If at some point you're not happy with it, you can always choose another route, but you'll have learnt a lot during the first phase, you'll know what works and what doesn't, and what you really want instead. You'll be in a much better position than you are now to make a good decision.
 
myuserid said:
No one here has done this, it's impossible to provide you with sound advice.

The only thing I can tell is that you don't need to be right first time. Trial and error is the most common way of learning. There's even a rule called "Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers" quoted in "More Programming Pearls: Confessions Of A Coder" that says:



So what I suggest is you choose the option that looks easiest to you and begin with that. If at some point you're not happy with it, you can always choose another route, but you'll have learnt a lot during the first phase, you'll know what works and what doesn't, and what you really want instead. You'll be in a much better position than you are now to make a good decision.
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All true,but I live in this community since / from 5 years. I trust the opinions of everyone of you. My ideas are nothing if they are not powered by yours. This does not mean that I want that someone should work the job for me,but that I don't live in a cave. It means that ideas, to grow strong, need continuous comparison. After an healthy discussion, I can try the path that stimulates me the most.
 
ZioMario said:
Because the form factor and look and feel of the BB have always fascinated me. And because armv7 on FreeBSD is running out of time. It makes sense, perhaps, while it's still supported. Also, I've never liked the BB desktop manager in terms of usability and ease of use.
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But you realize that even if you succeed you still invest a lot of resources into a dead thing?

Don't you want your gained knowledge to be reusable?
 
cracauer@ said:
But you realize that even if you succeed you still invest a lot of resources into a dead thing?

Don't you want your gained knowledge to be reusable?
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You're right. But it's stronger than me. The way I'd install FreeBSD in the phone fascinates me more than the phone itself.
 
I mean I want to try the AMP (as suggested by Claude),that seems to be the only way to run a lot of components of FreeBSD on the BB. Basically it will reserve some cores to Linux,cores necessary to proxy some drivers to FreeBSD,such as the driver of the modem. These drivers don't exist in FreeBSD and can't be ported or if they can be ported,the job will be too huge. AMP is a more doable way instead of using qemu + kvm that probably can't be used on that old hardware. So,it's the right time to learn something really exciting. So. FreeBSD can't run totally bare metal on the BB. It will be hybridated with Linux.
 
ZioMario I have nothing to recommend, but engineers tend to poke at something that interests them, even if noone else cares.
The industry has a lot of times where someone thought "it would be cool if I could get A running on B" (kind of like NetBSD).

So, if it makes you happy, makes you think, that's good. Use whatever tools you need to help you achieve your goal.
 
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