Recently I’ve been experimenting with OpenFyde. This is a really cool FOSS Chromium fork which, unlike most other OSes, lets you run everything using a local account, and the user experience is not compromised at all if you choose to use a local account. It has the simplicity of Windows or Mac, with the “leave-me-the-f***-aloneness” of Linux.
It will run on just about anything, and they even have custom images for a wide variety of hardware.
It also has built-in support for Linux, Android, and even native Steam.
The one big hang-up is that, on a system where pretty much everything runs in the browser, I know nothing about the browser itself. It looks just like Chrome but the icon is changed. You can install different browsers via Android and Linux but the experience is not the same.
So, it’d be nice if Brave built on the open source work from these fine folks and built something similar but with a trustworthy browser as the bedrock of the system.
FydeOS/OpenFyde is monetized using built-in accounts, cloud services and annual OS update fees ($13/year after 90 day free trial). There could also be native support for BraveVPN. Brave could also sell hardware with BraveOS pre-installed.
Just throwing it out there…
Nice idea but openFyde is not suitable to fork (no linux support into it) maybe vanilla ChromiumOS or WayneOS that another fork of ChromiumOS would be base for possible BraveOS.
This idea really great and team should consider it. WayneOS allows anyone individual or company to ship as how they want.
Hey team what do you think about BRAVEOS
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Even spins can be deployed like for crypto users or for daily users.
I wasn’t suggesting forking OpenFyde. I was suggesting forking ChromeOS and possibly using some of the open source code from openfyde, as well as the monetization efforts, but with a US company and Brave’s notorious name.
I hope team will consider on this topic and release BraveOS with Android apps support and Linux ability.
Sorry if necroposting offends anyone (especially on my first post) but I think that not only would this be a good idea but that the RedoxOS kernel addresses some of my biggest frustrations with the Linux kernel. Redox uses a microkernel written in Rust (including the C runtime, written completely in Rust) there is an attempt at writing a web browser in Rust also but not terribly functional yet. BraveOS in such a configuration would totally rock!
As always the drivers are always an issue but a microkernel runs drivers externally so getting Linux drivers to port as seamlessly as possible, which seems to be a goal, would be all that’s necessary. I haven’t searched yet but Redox uses Cosmic desktop environment. If that is an issue, that would be a potential snag also.