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Maru OS lets you use Android 8.1 on a phone, Debian 9 when you plug in display

You can do a lot of things on smartphones these days, but there are some things that are easier to do on a device with a big display and a full-sized keyboard. So most of us probably use multiple devices including phones, laptops, and maybe desktops or tablets. In recent years there have been a […]

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MaruOS 0.3 released (Android 6.0 smartphone ROM which also includes Debian Linux desktop OS)

Maru OS is an operating system that lets you run Android software on your phone… and connect the same phone to an external display to run desktop Linux software. An early build was unveiled in February. This summer the developer open sourced the project. And now there’s an updated version that makes the move from […]

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Maru OS is now open source (Turns Android phones into Linux desktops)

Maru OS is a software project that lets you plug an Android phone into an external display to run desktop Linux software. First unveiled earlier this year, the software is very much a work-in-progress. Initially it only supported one phone: the Google Nexus 5. But things could get a lot more interesting soon, because the developer […]

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Maru OS exits private beta, lets you use an Android phone as a Linux desktop

Maru OS is a platform that lets you run both Google Android and Debian Linux on a smartphone. Use your device as a phone, and it’ll act like any other Android phone. Connect an external display, mouse, and keyboard and you’ve got a full-fledged Debian Linux desktop environment. First unveiled in February, the project was in […]

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Maru is becoming an open source project (use your Android phone as a Linux desktop)

Maru is a platform that lets you run Android on a smartphone, but connect the phone to a keyboard, mouse and display to run a desktop Linux-based operating system (Debian 8 Jessie, to be precise). Developer Preetam D’Souza announced the project a week ago and opened up a beta program for Nexus 5 smartphone users. The goal […]

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MaruOS claims to turn your Android phone into a Linux desktop

Odds are that the smartphone in your pocket is powerful enough to run some desktop apps like office suites, web browsers, and other productivity tools. But the software on most phones is designed for mobile devices, not desktop screens. Microsoft is starting to change that with Continuum for phone, and Canonical’s Ubuntu “convergence” software could one […]