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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Not really. The PinePhone requires no userland blobs anywhere. I guess you could say the modem isn't entirely free yet, but even that is being worked on. The first people have already got postmarketOS and buildroot with mainline Linux running on it to replace the original firmware.