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Vanilla OS 2.0 Adds Android Container Support (github.com)
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Implements support for waydroid in vso, this includes creating and deleting a waydroid container, as well as using fdroid repositories to install and search for applications.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is huge! Just integrating F-Droid into their mix package manager is really badass.

Because the only good way to autoupdate the Android apps is from the PC host using waydroid app install. But F-Droids release images are totally random and also not as secure as using the API. Having repo support is waaay better.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

yes vanilla os 2.0 is huge and it's now on debian

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Now add Obtainium

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Eh, obtainium doesn't verify signatures, it quite literally just scrapes sources.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

When F-Droid builds direct from repo, signs and downloads to your phone, is it really that different from pulling the APK directly from the original repo?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It doesn't sign it locally, it verifies the file you downloaded is already signed properly as it should be. This ensures the download isn't broken but also that the app is from who they claim it is.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

But they need that because they are not the source, right? I feel like I'm missing something. Developer makes app on say, GitHub, how is going through F-Droid more trustworthy than the source?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

because obtainium gets many apps directly from F-Droid.org too, not just github

And for those downloads, it does no verification

Not on GitHub either, where signatures are often attached together with the APK.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I follow now. Interesting. Perhaps this will become a PR if I ever have time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Isnt that just a semi working feedreader for Github and other sources?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Does it also follow the rule to not allow closed source API? (Notification,Location,..)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, it gives the user the choice to pull whichever versions they want.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I was curious about vanilla os but nows it's gonna be based on Debian and everything else I'm hears I kinda wanna switch to it for at least a month

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Currently, been using it for the past year for work & school studies. Haven't had any big issues and far less when I used windows. Waiting for the Alpha to go to beta

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Will they update GNOME like Ubuntu or will they wait for Debian to do it?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In the road map they said they have gnome 44 for vanilla os 2.0

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Damn, it would be impressive if they accomplish that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What was it before?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu based

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is a good change

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