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>After the posting—and apparent editing—of a job opening spotted this week, it's expected that Amazon will bring its homegrown operating system to Fire TV devices this year. Most of Amazon’s Fire-branded devices, which include tablets, currently run some version of Fire OS, which is an Android fork based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). For years, Fire OS’s reliance on AOSP has resulted in Amazon devices coming out with older software, such as 2024’s Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which came out with Fire OS 8, which is based on 2020’s Android 11.

Archive: https://archive.today/KCboV From the post: >>After the posting—and apparent editing—of a job opening spotted this week, it's expected that Amazon will bring its homegrown operating system to Fire TV devices this year. Most of Amazon’s Fire-branded devices, which include tablets, currently run some version of Fire OS, which is an Android fork based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). For years, Fire OS’s reliance on AOSP has resulted in Amazon devices coming out with older software, such as 2024’s Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which came out with Fire OS 8, which is based on 2020’s Android 11.

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Remember that time linksys killed Linux on a router for some embedded shit os?

If it’s Linux, we can hack it.

Fuck Amazon, fuck firetv, but this might be interesting.

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Yeah, if it runs some sort of *nix it should be hackable and a lot easier as well.

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I bet it'll still run like shit too. I got rid of my fire stick because every update it got slower, and the UI more convoluted. Fuck em.

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Android is Linux.

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kind of sort of. Its a bastardized linux/java sub system designed to take away any level of freedom that a "normal" linux system would have.

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Agreed, but Linux is the kernel, and that is what Android runs.

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Android is Linux like Windows is Dos.

Sort of.