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Hope this becomes big, all the best. The beginnings are extremely promising. My biggest motivation behind seeing this succeed is that this is a free software al

• djsumdog 9y ago
  Same here. I don't think we'll see an Android alternative so much as more BeagleBoard/Pi like devices. The ARM ecosystem has always bothered me. The reason we don't see more alternative OSes for mobile devices is the total lack of standards. With the PC/x86 architecture, you had a pretty basic standard. Even if you had things like a PCI modem that didn't work or an unsupported Ethernet card, you could always at least get a Linux distribution to boot on any PC. There are x86 systems that aren't PCs (PS4, Wonderswan, etc.) and it was the PC/BIOS standard that really paved the way for Linux back in the 90s/2000s. I wish Windows would unlock their bootloaders. ARM+UEFI seems like the perfect platform for easily creating alternative OSes. Microsoft barely has a mobile market. They should really open their devices to the community.
• azinman2 9y ago
  What about Ubuntu phone?
  • ollieparanoid 9y ago
    Check out the https://ubports.com/ https://ubports.com/ project, they have continued Ubuntu Phone (which has officially been discontinued), and they have made really impressive progress since then. You can really run it on a phone and have all drivers working, unlike postmarketOS (but we have different goals, remember). One of our goals is packaging all sorts of user interfaces, and ubports is one of them (but it depends on individual developers, if they actually want to do it, because developers are encouraged to work on what they like most): https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/62 https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/62