By Desire Athow
New operating systems are often greeted with scepticism, especially since, as is the case with browsers, the investment is colossal and the ROI uncertain given the necessary time it takes for them to embed in the market.
Earlier this year, a little known startup, Jide, announced that it was releasing a new OS based on the Android-x86 project which ported AOSP (Android Open Source Project) to the x86 platform (Intel and AMD).
Jide is backed by Foxconn, one of the biggest technology manufacturers in the world, and was founded by ex-Google employees. So it’s not going to vanish anytime soon.
The project usually lags behind its ARM-based counterpart by a few months but the thriving community means that it won’t disappear overnight. With a regular release cycle, Remix OS is shaping up to be a nice little rival for Google’s own Chrome OS.
Both of them have a predilection for keyboard-enabled devices and x86 platforms. Remix OS, however, allows Android to run on far more powerful hardware than is available in the ARM ecosystem.
That means having access to systems with far more cores/threads and even multiple sockets as …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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