Suspend and resume support is a bit confusing: if I choose to suspend, the screen goes dark, and if I press buttons on the keyboard it resumes after a while, but I’m not yet sure if it actually suspends in the mean while. The kernel bug tracker already has a patch for audio, and I have submitted a bug report for the battery. The main things that are still missing are battery level indication and audio.
Display, brightness adjustment, wireless internet (iwlwifi), keyboard, camera all work fine. GRUB on the LiveCD is customised to have the entries for resident mode (which means that changes done are saved) and guest mode (classic LiveCD without any changes being saved).įrom features that the kernel provides, the vast majority works out of the box. Perhaps it may be a good idea to try launching Android-x86 with the Remix OS kernel. It could be a kernel option, or something else that got changed. Fascinating, and hard to say why there’s such a difference. It booted and ran fine! No crashes or lockups. I was not expecting much, given my experience with Android-x86, but Remix OS surprised me. Just like the base Android-x86, Remix OS comes in LiveCD form. The kernel sources are published on GitHub, but that’s about it. There may be other changes done to the system, but it’s hard to know due to the proprietary nature of the OS.
This allows running Android apps in windowed mode, with a taskbar and a start menu. It is done by building upon Android-x86 (so it’s a fork in the git sense, since it gets rebased upon new Android-x86 releases), replacing the default shell with a proprietary, Windows-like UI. The whole point of Remix OS is to bring an Android-powered OS to PCs and PC-like devices. The company also had hired the cofounder of Android-x86 to work on Remix OS, but he left the company at the end of 2016. Remix OS is a fork of the Android-x86 project, done by Jide Technology, a company made of a few ex-Google employees (three listed on their website). Too bad, since it looked promising! More reason to try and get Android-x86 working properly, I guess.