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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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Sailfish: iPhone and Android Alternative (www.optoutproject.net)

submitted 8 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really wish Sailfish would gain more traction and device support. I really like the UI features and gesture support, it's revolutionary compared to the big phone OS's. Unfortunately I can't run it on any of my current phones.

[–] mihnt@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is my first time seeing anything about this and it working on mostly just Sony hardware is...strange.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This project has quite some history

If I remember correctly it got phased out of a Nokia development and the developers still wanted the project to succeed after Nokia stopped the development.
So they made their own company and had done tries with crowdfunding and their own devices, and after some time they settled for licensing.

But sadly they got quite silent. I kinda celebrate every life sign from them, because I really like their concept

(Not sure about the history after all that time, so take that with a grain of salt)

Edit: oh, the article already talks about that... So my comment is mostly redundancy...

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Maybe cause sony provides the sources to their AOSP

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

i feel step 1 should be getting phones to be more open and standardized.

i want to be able to just install stuff like this on my phone without needing some teenager on xda to figure out how to get it booting and working well enough to give it a fair try.

for this reason alone i almost never get excited about phone oses

[–] lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

But why run another proprietary operating system?

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago

Did you hear about postmarketOS? It's basically an ARM Linux that can run desktop apps although GTK apps are well optimized for mobile usage

[–] lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The phone doesn't listen into your conversations or read your emails. The company isn't using your every move to feed machine learning algorithms. You are not the product.

How would the author know? It's a proprietary operating system.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Aye a sailfish os mention!!