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It is worth noting that most ROMs are not FLOSS, and include binary blobs for GPU drivers, RIL services, and wireless drivers. The build process of lineageos in

It is worth noting that most ROMs are not FLOSS, and include binary blobs for GPU drivers, RIL services, and wireless drivers. The build process of lineageos involves copying select blobs from the factory firmware of a sample phone. The only true "FLOSS" ROM project is FSF's replicant, which is only available from phones that are old enough to have been reverse engineered.

inawarminister 8y ago
Indeed. I believe the latest full-FLOSS device is Samsung Galaxy S3 with free WiFi driver, but it's not too bad since the latest laptop with no blobs using LibreBoot is 2008-era Thinkpad X200 isn't it? Similat generation of hardware, yet mobile telephony has come so far compared to laptops...
- Fnoord 8y ago
  The latest FOSS device for workstations is the TALOS II [1] [1] https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
  - zaarn 8y ago
    *latest FOSS device if you can fork over 5'000$ It's in no way comparable to a laptop or android phone that most people use and not practical as a FOSS device for the same group.
    - Fnoord 8y ago
      It is a workstation, not a desktop or laptop or smartphone.
izacus 8y ago
More problematically, a huge amount of ROMs is people blindly copy/pasting scripts, binaries and other components from other ROMs without fully understanding the consequences, security implications and/or verifying the source for malicious code. The code quality for huge majority of stuff you find on XDA is so poor I wouldn't touch it with a 15m pole.