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> FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into You can run Android without gapps fairly well, I believe there'
by problems 10y ago
> FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into
You can run Android without gapps fairly well, I believe there's even a project that replaces gapps and uses xposed to fake signatures so that they look legitimate to replace Google Maps and other in-app widgets frequently used on Android. Or you can run with GApps if you're willing to tolerate some level of proprietary software.
FLOSS on phones is actually in a quite good state, F-Droid is pretty good, many well maintained open source roms. Better than most other platforms.
- hub_ 10y agoDoes that include open source code for ALL the hardware?
- chriswarbo 10y ago> Does that include open source code for ALL the hardware? I've stuck with my OpenMoko FreeRunner due to the lack of alternatives, and even that uses a proprietary driver for the GSM modem :( Hopefully projects like GNUradio will lead to a solution for this.