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Everything We Know About ferdiOS’s Next Flagship Release
Key takeaways The lockscreen is a raymarching shader The topbar has a fade opacity effect UI based on swipe gestures Home items are shaders Support for custom home widgets Settings screen(s) Multiple client windows Re-arrange home items Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Sander Ferdinand, Benevolent Dictator for Life, comments: …
Read more...Early boot debugging and fancy graphics
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Early boot A typical boot on ferdiOS: bootloader (white Google screen, see video) kernel load initramfs init system (dinit) compositor On Google Pixel3a, this takes around 6 seconds. If something goes wrong in any of these stages, it may be difficult to debug: display or touchscreen not …
Read more...The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters.
Three years and two abandoned prototypes later, ferdiOS is approaching alpha. The difficult parts are solved Currently, ferdiOS boots, but various subsystems are not implemented: modem (4G, SMS, calls), camera, bluetooth, accelerometer, lightmeter. Problem Predicted difficulty Status Bringing up the display stack Extreme Solved Modem, …
Read more...A regional venture fund has taken a position in the Linux mobile space, handing the ferdiOS project an one-time 80 EUR war chest that leadership describes as "transformational".
ferdiOS confirmed Tuesday that it has closed an €80 round, its first outside capital of any kind. The cash injection took place on Monday, and was promptly converted into a Claude subscription - the entire deployment of proceeds. Deal terms Line item Amount Gross raise €80.00 Net proceeds €80.00 Claude Pro runway (at burn rate) 4 …
Read more...A public service announcement
Foreword C++ is the worst programming language of all time (proof), and that is a good thing™, however please follow this document to keep things manageable. In general, ferdiOS prefers simple, readable code over complex but faster code. Typically, you should not worry about if something is heap, or stack allocated, move semantics. We …
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