BharOS: IIT Madras-incubated company brings Atmanirbhar "BharOS" for smartphones

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/iit-madras-incubated-developer-brings-atmanirbhar-bharos-for-smartphones/articleshow/97138785.cms

I have been trying to see if there are any articles on the internals of the OS but all articles seem to be more or less same to the article above.

I wonder whether it's some Android fork, Linux fork (postmarketos) or built from scratch. Also whether it is open source or not.

Just speculating, but android fork would be my bet.

omega44-xt said:
Just speculating, but android fork would be my bet.

with pegasus pre-installed.

omega44-xt said:
Just speculating, but android fork would be my bet.

Yeah, it's very unlikely that they'd build it from scratch.

Darth Vader said:
with pegasus pre-installed.

Kek.

This has aakash tablet vibes written all over it.

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I doubt that this would have widespread adoption. Unless govt. mandates OEMs to install it or these guys also produce a handset that uses this.

Anyone know about "Freedom phone" in the US?

Reading some articles gives the feeling that it is basically a fork of Android/AOSP/LineageOS with no default proprietary apps and a closed app store containing curated apps for the security conscious government departments. Something like Sandes. Theoretically.

Any source for this.

If it's a fork of AOSP then what's really special about it? There are like a gazillion AOSP based ROMs, some even made by Indians which doesn't make this the first indigenous ROM.

But yeah, using this for government departments makes sense from a security POV.

Desmond said:
But yeah, using this for government departments makes sense from a security POV.

Switching over to graphene os would make much more sense TBH.

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*www.privacytools.io/android-alternatives

its just custom recovery. because those students capable of making Full Fledged operating system are studying in us/canadian universities.

Should have chosen to base it on postmarketos or some such. By forking AOSP they are still relying on Google upstream.

Is this Closed source? As it is an "IIT Madras Incubated company". They should have made it open source.

I don't know. There is very scant information available at this point.

**www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/c...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Hmm...

Android also runs on Linux kernel.

*twitter.com/Rasenkai_99/status/1616472737622691841?s=20&t=vgozf1QQsUKnBC-Zzyodyg

Aravind Ram said:
**twitter.com/Rasenkai_99/status/1616472737622691841?s=20&t=vgozf1QQsUKnBC-Zzyodyg

Honestly, would have been better if they just took AOSP & built over it instead of taking a custom ROM & building over that, trying to say its developed here. Hopefully we get more info soon.

omega44-xt said:
Honestly, would have been better if they just took AOSP & built over it instead of taking a custom ROM & building over that, trying to say its developed here. Hopefully we get more info soon.

Too much work and creativity required for that. As I said, that creativity has long flown to Abroad colleges.

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