Tangtially related: MaruOS as the main development machine

[Ramon Tayag]

Hi, everyone.

I ran into MaruOS only yesterday while looking at Librem 5 alternatives. I have to say it looks really promising.

I develop software (web, mostly). I'm looking to go even lighter on my development machine. I want to post this here since to hopefully start a discussion around whether this is feasible or not.

There are other questions I have like actually trying it out with devices I have lying around, but I'll create another thread so we keep topics focused.

# Remote Dev Box

There's little doubt that if I downgrade and make my main development machine a phone or tablet, that I'll need to offload all of the CPU intensive things to the cloud.

To do this, I could use something like Cloud9 (AWS has one that's super easy to setup), or since I like my local text editor, keep files local and just sync as I make changes via [mutagen.io](https://mutagen.io/). Mutagen has the added benefit of syncing back to the local machine, so that I can view artifacts like screenshots that are taken during automated tests.

The application will be accessed via [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/) from my local browser. As long as I have a full browser with developers tools, things should work well.

All the while, a [Mosh](https://mosh.org/) connection will be open with the remote machine, so I can run tests, build docker images, deploy, etc, without suffering awful typing lag.

Note: I'm already doing this but on my MBP, just as a proof of concept. It works pretty well.

# Monitor

When working on something for more than 30 minutes, I'll want a screen that's larger than 10". Since I'd like this setup to be portable, I could use an external monitor as seen in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndJl2p4Pb-E&t=139s).

My ideal situation is to have a large tablet like an iPad Pro 12.9" and not bring around an external monitor anymore. When it's time to sit down and do serious work, I'll just connect a keyboard and mouse and switch on full Linux mode. However, I cannot find large Android tablets that have been made recently.

# is It Feasible?

Does it sound feasible? Anyone already trying something like this out?

[Chituc Georgian]

Yes , it may be , at least for me was great experince developing on maru.

I do not know what phone you want to use for maru and what kind of development you need to do  but from my real experience using the s9+ without to play youtube videos in hd in firefox , so the phone to get hot, i worked all time on my phone and did no need a cloud service.

I was doing C and web development using Atom editor and I did nto even need internet cause apache and mysql was installed in my phone too .

I altime used a real monitor and real keyboard and mouse cause I had them near me . Depending on the device you use you can find out everything moves very good or just acceptable . My experience with s9+ was like on a real desktop .

[Ramon Tayag]

The phone gets hot playing videos on HD?

That's good to know, thanks.

Ramon Tayag

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[Vijay]

Have you guys been able to get away with running Android Studio itself on MaruOS? I have some old Exagear archives and was thinking that the 32-bit Windows version of Android Studio can run on this.

On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 9:16:25 PM UTC-4, Ramon Tayag wrote:

The phone gets hot playing videos on HD?

That's good to know, thanks.

Ramon Tayag

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:18 AM Chituc Georgian <diana...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes , it may be , at least for me was great experince developing on maru.

I do not know what phone you want to use for maru and what kind of development you need to do  but from my real experience using the s9+ without to play youtube videos in hd in firefox , so the phone to get hot, i worked all time on my phone and did no need a cloud service.

I was doing C and web development using Atom editor and I did nto even need internet cause apache and mysql was installed in my phone too .

I altime used a real monitor and real keyboard and mouse cause I had them near me . Depending on the device you use you can find out everything moves very good or just acceptable . My experience with s9+ was like on a real desktop .

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