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Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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Will Linux Phones stay around this time? (linmob.net)
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Some thoughts on the history of GNU/Linux phones.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I like more the idea behind UBPorts as touch existing phones that are out-of-life in most cases.

I think that could have more possibilities. Maybe LuneOS and PostmarketOS too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yes, in general I agree. But it comes with a huge downside of outdated Android based kernels and all sorts of compatibility issues around that. In theory a true Linux phone that runs on a mainline kernel would free up a lot of development resources to actually improve the system instead off trying to patch around various libhybrid related issues all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Note that on postmarketOS, we don't support libhybris (anymore) and are instead actively working on porting as many devices as we can to use the mainline kernel. Our latest stable release (v21.03) actually has 7 Android devices running mainline kernels as can be seen here.