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A pure Linux phone could obviously benefit from being as polished and streamlined as its iOS and Android counterparts. But thats not its main mission. Thats no
by josteink 6y ago
A pure Linux phone could obviously benefit from being as polished and streamlined as its iOS and Android counterparts.
But thats not its main mission. Thats not what it's selling.
Total user control, like on real desktop Linux, for those who can wield it, because thats literally what youre getting.
For now this space is for a very specific audience. Maybe in time (like Ubuntu did for desktop Linux on PCs) there will come a distro which is usable enough OOB to have the same effect on mobile.
We mobile Linux users will still be a minority though, and we probably wont mind. Just like we dont mind being minority desktop users either.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoI was hoping that there would be a reasonably rock solid "feature phone" platform we could start building from, but it seems everybody wants to scale down the full linux desktop. I just want a feature phone with a browser. I would even be keen to see KiaOS running on it, but I don't think you can right now.
- linmob 6y agoIf you want to, you can have that; just take postmarketOSs new stable release when it's out with your prefered mobile shell and put the bare minimum of apps you want/need on there and you'll be set. As for KaiOS, I doubt we'll see that soon, as IIRC like FirefoxOS it's designed to run on Android kernels. With GloDroid being mostly dormant and incomplete, I doubt we can pull that off.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoThanks. I will try that!
- jay_kyburz 6y agoUpdate: Hold on, I thought it's the shells that are the problem. They are trying to do too much at once and doing it badly as a result.
- snvzz 6y agoLinux isn't all that will run on these. Genode is working on a port. I'd gladly run seL4 instead of Linux.