What is this? I couldn't understand from the landing page. Is it a desktop shell that uses web-based technologies? Is it intended to run locally and offline?
It's a Web based OS, based on the boot2gecko/FirefoxOS stack. Images are available for Android based devices as well as "desktop" builds. Builds for the Pinephone and Librem5 linux phones are coming soon.
You can indeed use the desktop builds as a linux desktop shell.
An easy way to get started is to clone the https://github.com/capyloon/nutria repository and follow the "quick start" guide. Both Mac and Linux are supported.
Copyright is a negative right. In light of that, characterizing the AGPL as "aggressive" is a little misleading—or maybe best to say that it's something akin to an optical illusion—considering that AGPL is strictly more permissive than the "all rights reserved" terms that apply to most copyrightable works that most people interact with over the course of an ordinary day.
No, that's the great thing about GSI images! You just plop it on top of an Android image - even stock - and it runs your OS on the vendor kernel+drivers!
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An easy way to get started is to clone the https://github.com/capyloon/nutria repository and follow the "quick start" guide. Both Mac and Linux are supported.
I guess put another way: what is the licensing risk one is trying to drive down by picking such an aggressive license?
Is that to say it can be flashed over an Android system and it should just work on the vendor drivers?
I wonder if Capyloon can run FirefoxOS apps like Kai can.