I have tested the Endless Os (basic) and the comments are below.
If you have Internet access, it is far better to buy (cheap by all standards) a computer installed with Endless Os.
I give my reasons below.
I want the guys and girls developing this Os to put a Light Weight Live version, for testing and luring the enthusiasts young and old.
I am an OLD Linux Enthusiast who has gone to slumber due to the tablet I have.
I have given almost a total retirement to my desktop computer.
I use it for watching downloaded films and browsing the email.
But all these can be done on the move and I do not need a keyboard to type.
Touch typing on a tablet is a treat and it looks after my typing mistakes well, often completing the words with valuable prompts.
That is one reason for not writing about Linux in general but I read the Linux Magazine from cover to cover.
Thanks guys and girls for writing a note about Endless Os.
It made me to do a search on it's web site.
It has taken over the concept of OLPS, the One Laptop Per Child to its limits.
You probably know OLPS was killed in its infancy by the corporate might but not its underlying concept.
Endless Os not only has a Linux platform but port with affordable hardware.
If you have Internet access, it is far better to buy (cheap by all standards) a computer installed with Endless Os.
I give my reasons below.
I want the guys and girls developing this Os to put a Light Weight Live version, for testing and luring the enthusiasts young and old.
I am an OLD Linux Enthusiast who has gone to slumber due to the tablet I have.
I have given almost a total retirement to my desktop computer.
I use it for watching downloaded films and browsing the email.
But all these can be done on the move and I do not need a keyboard to type.
Touch typing on a tablet is a treat and it looks after my typing mistakes well, often completing the words with valuable prompts.
That is one reason for not writing about Linux in general but I read the Linux Magazine from cover to cover.
Thanks guys and girls for writing a note about Endless Os.
It made me to do a search on it's web site.
It has taken over the concept of OLPS, the One Laptop Per Child to its limits.
You probably know OLPS was killed in its infancy by the corporate might but not its underlying concept.
Endless Os not only has a Linux platform but port with affordable hardware.
That's it's strength.
I have not yet tested or downloaded it yet but why bother.
It has enormous resources and multi-language capability including Chinese.
Please visit it's web site and make your own judgment.
Comments after testing.
Overall it is a very good distribution with limitless resources for general educational (not Linux in particular) purposes.
It is for single use and does not live side by with other operating systems including Linux itself.
Now I know why it is not in the Distrowatch List.
It is a solid distribution to be installed into hardware and used daily.
Not for a hobbyist to play round.
It takes over your hardware and all its partitions in full swoop and that's it.
I do not like any operating system which lives by itself Microsoft and Apple included and not coexisting with the other ecosystems,
around.
On the plus side, it has the look of a mobile phone.
No particular desktop, even though the base is from Gnome.
I want the guys / girls to develop a mobile version and a phone to go with it, now that both (crowd funded) Ubuntu and Firefox abandoned their mobile platform.
There should be something to compete with Google's Android platform (originally based on Linux but now proprietary) since desktop will be in the past tense with the way IoT is moving.
