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Pretty much all Linux installs on Android phones are chroot jails on top of Android. They run at decent speed because everything is native, but they're forced t
by squarefoot 6y ago
Pretty much all Linux installs on Android phones are chroot jails on top of Android. They run at decent speed because everything is native, but they're forced to use Android's kernel and device drivers which are non free, closed and therefore not trustworthy, and cannot protect themselves by malicious Android apps and/or backdoors.
I would rather have a truly free and open operating system in which I can set up one or more sandboxes containing all stuff I don't trust (closed apps, Android emulation etc), that is essentially the other way around. The Pinephone ideally is trying to be a step in this direction.
- qiqitori 6y ago> Android's kernel and device drivers which are non free, closed and therefore not trustworthy That's a bit misleading. Android's kernel is Linux which is GPLv2, and thus the device drivers are GPLv2 too. (They could be circumventing the GPL by using shims though.)
- izacus 6y agoI think you perhaps misunderstood me - it's not to replace the PinePhone implementation, but to complement it. Give users the ability to boot PinePhone software to both try it out (so they see it's good enough to replace their current Android phone) and to make filling up the software gaps easier. All while open hardware continues to be developed. Right now, PinePhone development requires a pretty expensive buyin with pretty much no ability to see it ahead of time.