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Jolla on a Sony Experia? Sony put everything you need to run your OS on some of their Xperia phones on GitHub as part of their Open Device Program. Jolla which
by demarq 10y ago
Jolla on a Sony Experia?
Sony put everything you need to run your OS on some of their Xperia phones on GitHub as part of their Open Device Program. Jolla which is going to become open source sometime has been successfully (in feburary 2017) run on one of the devices.
So in the near future, there is hope in that direction.
- wvh 10y agoI second this, I'm pretty happy with my 1st gen Jolla, though it desperately needs an hardware update. To be able to get a terminal either on the device or by logging in with SSH to fix things or make changes is great. Not all the UI components are open source (yet?) though it's pretty close to stock Qt; at least the base system is open-source, and that's more important to me – I think they want to prevent full rip-offs rather than lock down the system from their own users. I've been critical of these computer-in-your-pocket claims a few years ago, but I can see now that if the hardware keeps improving at the rate it does, having a full Linux system based on something like Sailfish or Ubuntu Phone with a keyboard and screen attached could work out for a lot of scenarios.