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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.

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  • Hardware freedom.
  • Perfect operating-system competition.
  • Full utilization of specs.
  • Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
  • Less e-waste.

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  • Ubuntu Touch
  • Sailfish
  • FuriOS
  • Postmarket OS
  • Mobian
  • Pure OS
  • Plasma Mobile
  • LuneOS
  • openSUSE Mobile
  • Nemomobile
  • Droidian
  • Mobile NixOS
  • ExpidusOS
  • Maemo Leste
  • Manjaro Arm
  • Tizen
  • WebOS

Linux Mobile Hardware:

  • Fairphone 5
  • Volla Phone
  • PinePhone
  • FLX1
  • Librem 5

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Fireship video on Librephone (youtu.be)
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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Was there an actual announcement? I only saw the one off line about "we want to make an fsf phone!"

Thats a real shame (and kind of a dealbreaker) if they are continuing on the android route.

Edit:

https://librephone.fsf.org/

Oh. Thats... Something.

https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html

This is a project to research proprietary files in Android to work towards a long-term goal of free replacements.

...

Are you developing a free mobile phone OS?

NO. There are many projects working in mobile phones, and many of them are largely free software. The FSF doesn't see the need to join these projects, but wants to build upon them and improve on their current state of freedom. While there are many proprietary libraries and other files in Android,this project is focused on binary blobs.

.....

Are you developing hardware?

NO. We are working on freeing up software, we are not hardware developers.

So.... Yeah.