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Ideologically, I like Replicant. Actually free-as-in-freedom version of Android, great! In reality though, it doesn't really work on most of modern phones, and
by runn1ng 10y ago
Ideologically, I like Replicant. Actually free-as-in-freedom version of Android, great!
In reality though, it doesn't really work on most of modern phones, and on the ones it works on, there is no WiFi support. And the latest commit on the Replicant git (excluding website changes) is 8 months ago. And it has just one guy committing.
So it didn't catch world's attention, apparently.
- mikegerwitz 10y agoThe Replicant project wrote a post in August describing work on Replicant 6: http://blog.replicant.us/2016/08/replicant-6-early-work-upstream-work-and-f-droid-issue/ http://blog.replicant.us/2016/08/replicant-6-early-work-upst... My phone (Galaxy S3) uses Replicant, and I'm quite excited for the upgrade, which will fix a number of rather unfortunate issues. I'm more than willing to make such sacrifices, but it'd be nice (for example) to be able to take videos of my children, which the current version cannot do. It's not a shortcoming of Replicant---the fact that these issues exist at all demonstrate how much value is placed on user freedom. Most unfortunate is that few users will be willing to make these sacrifices.
- runn1ng 10y agoYeah. But again, it doesn't seem like there is a huge and vibrant developer community inspecting the code, implementing features and fixing bugs; looking at their gitlab and their redmine, it seems like there is almost no activity. (It's possible I just don't understand the websites; looking at their GitLab and Redmine, I start to understand why is Github so popular; I cannot find anything there :(( )