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> Where are you going to go? Google? Doing the exact same thing. Neither? Cabin in the woods territory. Oh for the Nokia N900, right? The Pinephone is on the f

> Where are you going to go? Google? Doing the exact same thing. Neither? Cabin in the woods territory. Oh for the Nokia N900, right? The Pinephone is on the frontpage at the moment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24329900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24329900, and the Librem 5 has been several times recently. Maybe not grandma friendly ATM but I wouldn’t call it “cabin in the woods territory.”

harry8 6y ago
I look forward to the day I agree with you and hope it comes soon. The point is we had it. The N900 was it. 10+ years ago. Maybe pine or librem or open moko or whatever will get us back to where we were more than a decade ago. I really hope so.
- boogies 6y ago
  I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementation: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package - Librem 5s for $750 now that the crowdfunding campaign’s over, and a $2000 Made in the US version + Several GUI environments:
- boogies 6y ago
  I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementations: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package - Librem 5s for $750 now that the crowdfunding campaign’s over, and a $2000 Made in the US version + Several GUI environments: - Phosh, based on GNOME and GTK+, developed by Purism as the default shell for the Librem 5 - The KDE equivalent of that, that Purism has wanted as an option for the Librem 5 from early on - Ubiports’ community maintained Ubuntu Touch - Sxmo, a bundle of mobile adaptations of dwm, dmenu, etc. with a nice modular (Unixy/KISS/suckless) design eg. a gesture daemon made by the same developer with it but not exclusively for it This seems significantly better than the N900’s single (though great sounding) thing that couldn’t thrive independently after Microsoft bought Nokia out.

harry8 6y ago

I look forward to the day I agree with you and hope it comes soon. The point is we had it. The N900 was it. 10+ years ago. Maybe pine or librem or open moko or whatever will get us back to where we were more than a decade ago. I really hope so.

boogies 6y ago
I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementation: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package - Librem 5s for $750 now that the crowdfunding campaign’s over, and a $2000 Made in the US version + Several GUI environments:
boogies 6y ago
I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementations: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package - Librem 5s for $750 now that the crowdfunding campaign’s over, and a $2000 Made in the US version + Several GUI environments: - Phosh, based on GNOME and GTK+, developed by Purism as the default shell for the Librem 5 - The KDE equivalent of that, that Purism has wanted as an option for the Librem 5 from early on - Ubiports’ community maintained Ubuntu Touch - Sxmo, a bundle of mobile adaptations of dwm, dmenu, etc. with a nice modular (Unixy/KISS/suckless) design eg. a gesture daemon made by the same developer with it but not exclusively for it This seems significantly better than the N900’s single (though great sounding) thing that couldn’t thrive independently after Microsoft bought Nokia out.