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Every time I hear about the Librem 5, I get excited about the idea that I could run Debian, or Arch, or another open source OS on a phone. But I can find scant
by nmg 8y ago
Every time I hear about the Librem 5, I get excited about the idea that I could run Debian, or Arch, or another open source OS on a phone. But I can find scant details about how this would be implemented.
- roblabla 8y agoNot sure what you mean? It gets implemented by using a touch-friendly Window Manager, touch-friendly apps, with apps for all the phone features you'd expect? It's all open source BTW. Look at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Purism https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Purism
- comesee 8y agoYup, it's roughly the same idea as building a touch friendly website.
- snaky 8y agoDon't you consider e.g. LineageOS open source OS?
- seba_dos1 8y agoMost LineageOS distributions aren't exactly "open source" due to hardware driver blobs. Check out Replicant.
- snaky 8y agoDebian or Arch aren't too, in fact. https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html So why the difference?
- seba_dos1 8y agoIn Debian or Arch it's very easy not to install them and still have everything functioning properly. It's not the case with LineageOS, where Replicant needed significant effort to work and its hardware compatibility is still poor.