Does the Replicant OS have a desktop and server version (i.e.in addition to Replicant Mobile version) or does it work with any Linux desktop and/or server OS's (e.g.Tails, Debian Webserver)?
Added by WIT Contact almost 3 years ago
The Purism group claim that their Librem 5 mobile phone (https://puri.sm/products/) works seemlessly with their desktop and server OS's because it's the same OS. Can Replicant do the same?
"PureOS on the Librem 5 is the same OS we use on our other products with the same applications as our desktop– just with a special kernel, shell, compositor, and a small set of other tools needed to run the OS on the phone hardware" *
- Quote from https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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RE: Does the Replicant OS have a desktop and server version (i.e.in addition to Replicant Mobile version) or does it work with any Linux desktop and/or server OS's (e.g.Tails, Debian Webserver)? - Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli almost 3 years ago
The Purism group claim that their Librem 5 mobile phone (https://puri.sm/products/) works seemlessly with their desktop and server OS's because it's the same OS. Can Replicant do the same?
To do that we would first need to complete the port to Replicant 11, and then work to make Replicant auto-detect the hardware (it's planned for other reasons).
The issue is that at the end you would still have an Android distribution, so you will end up in the opposite situation than with PureOS: PureOS starts from an OS that is not optimized to run well on smartphones and has to work to make that happen. In Addition, PureOS doesn't run Android applications. Here if you use Replicant to do that, you'd instead end up with a Android distribution that is not optimized to run well on desktops and laptops and that doesn't run GNU/Linux applications.
For servers I don't see how running Replicant >= 11 on a server would make sense but maybe you have in mind uses cases that I didn't think about yet.