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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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Open Source phone news roundup: FreeBSD, Google-free Android, and Ubuntu Touch (linuxsmartphones.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

There is the Librem 5 also, suprised that wasnt included. Its the only one with 100% free software (FSF definition) I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.

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

Would this device be rootable?

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

You mean PinePhone? You have root privileges by default. No bootloader unlocking, magisk flashing required. If you are using Linux, you may need root with GloDroid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

As soon as freebsd supports appimages I'm going to switch to it as a GPU-less desktop default. But with mobile it would take an immense amount of effort. I will consider donating if I believe that this is a viable idea, because what sandboxing do we really need on a phone when there are jails?