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Jailbreaking and installing FOSS like Jolla is doing with Sailfish on Xperia X right this week, with some help from Sony Open Devices. Still, it would be nice
by wvh 9y ago
Jailbreaking and installing FOSS like Jolla is doing with Sailfish on Xperia X right this week, with some help from Sony Open Devices.
Still, it would be nice to have some hope do be able to do it without relying on manufacturers' goodwill... If ARM gets sufficiently commoditised so it's cheap (both time and money) enough for smaller players to create hardware, surely there must be enough open-source and/or privacy-oriented folks around to come up with a profitable product?
- cameronhowe 9y agoJolla/Sailfish is not FOSS, and they have no plans to be so in the future either.
- jcelerier 9y agoIt's still the closest option we have to "desktop linux stack running on a phone". Wayland, Qt, BTRFS, systemd, glibc...
- Brakenshire 9y agoThe major thing which isn't FOSS are the UI components, other than that it's the default apps, the home screen etc. And they are planning to open-source more, they effectively went bankrupt a few years back and the new investors were reluctant.