Linux Phones

I haven't heard much on this area of development.

This is the most interesting phone to me as it is the most repairable, ethically sourced and has a clear case. This option would allow me to reduce harm as much as possible while participating in modern society.

After my iPhone is on its last legs, pmos becomes much better and fairphone ships to Canada, this will be my next phone.

Then when I'm arguing with people about veganism they can no longer pull out the bad faith argument in the same way "but you use iphones made with child labour." allowing perfection to be the enemy of good. They often say this when they're unironically using iphones and buying slaugtherhouse meat, they just too lazy to improve their ethics.

It would be awesome if we could receive an article or a video report on the topic as it would inspire a wave of interest onto the project.

They currently have 68 articles about Linux. We need to pump those numbers up to 100.

Initially Mobian was developed for the Librem 5 and the Pinephone which were designed to support Linux.[14] In May 2020, Pine64 announced availability of Mobian for PinePhone.[15] On 18 January 2021, the Mobian "Community Edition" Pinephone was released, an edition selling with Mobian pre-installed, and donating $10 US of the phone purchase cost to the Mobian developers.[7][16] Later Mobian announced support for the PineTab, a tablet, and the Pinephone Pro.[17] Mobian also supports the OnePlus 6/6T and Pocophone F1 Android phones with the mainline Linux kernel.[17]

Juno computer released a x86-based tablet with Mobian preinstalled to preorder in October 2022.[18]

I could be the maintainer for the Pixel 3A XL model as I would like to help speed up development of the project. My main priorities would be fixing the battery and creating a prebuilt image so more people can get involved.

Unlike many other projects porting conventional Linux distributions to Android phones, postmarketOS does not use the Android build system or userspace.[16] Each phone has only one unique package, and flashable installation images are generated using the pmbootstrap tool.[4] The project intends to support the mainline Linux kernel on all phones in the future, instead of the often outdated Android-specific fork, to reduce the potential for security exploits.[4] A few devices can boot into the mainline kernel already.[17][18] The project aims to support Android apps, originally through the use of Anbox, which was replaced by Waydroid since postmarketOS v21.12.[19][20]

Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB.[21][4][22] In March 2024, the maintainers announced that postmarketOS would migrate from OpenRC to systemd as its init system for select user interfaces.[23]

My ideal ecosystem would be having a Fairphone 5 (Postmarket OS) paired with the Pinetime Watch, the Framework Laptop (Linux Mint), the Steam Deck, the AMD desktop (Nobara) and the openwrt router.

The services I would use would be Lemmy, Wikipedia, Mastodon, Organic Maps, LibreOffice, Ecosia, Loops, Librewolf, Thunderbird, Friendica, Pixelfed, Proton, GOG, Peertube, Matrix, Localsend, Gitlab, Kiwix, Audacity, Gimp and Bookwyrm.

Barni2000 has been maintaining Qualcomm kernels, working on the Linux kernel and reviewing merge requests.

I'm currently using a Pixel 3A XL with Ubuntu Touch.

Postmarket OS: I really like it the most since it is built from the ground up to be linux. Though there is not pre-built image yet for my model.

Ubuntu Touch: It has a stable reputation and has 2561 mau over a month according to the amount of downloads from openstore. Though the gps is globally broken and the VOLTE does not work yet.

Sailfish: The UI is the most visually appealing and I like the idea of buying the operating system license to support the development. Though I wish the UI was open source and it was available for more than just Sony Xperia Phones.

Mobian: I haven't tried it yet though I heard someone got it running on the pixel 3 recently.