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What O/S do you run on it? AIU Fairphone primarily advertises sustainability, but then still uses AOSP out of the box, with however an express policy to open up
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
What O/S do you run on it? AIU Fairphone primarily advertises sustainability, but then still uses AOSP out of the box, with however an express policy to open up its bootloader to alternative Android-based OSes and keep warranty, or don't they?
- fsflover 5y agoYou can buy it with /e/OS preinstalled. But the problem with old kernel will be there I guess: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/ https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/.
- giantg2 5y agoWhat problem?
- fsflover 5y agoInability to update the Linux kernel due to the proprietary drivers.
- giantg2 5y agoOk, thanks!
- zozbot234 5y agoWrt. the Fairphone 3, https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_450/625/626/632_(MSM8953) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_450/6... suggests that mainline kernel support is very much WIP at present, but ought to be feasible i.e. there are no obvious roadblocks to full mainline support. (As for Fairphone 2, see https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_800/801_(MSM8974) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_800/8... instead.)
- tannhaeuser 5y agoAre there active exploits or is it otherwise much of a problem though? I mean Linux is with us around 30 years, and smartphones 13 years. And the OS updates I had encountered made things worse, eg old Android 5 loosing USB mass storage, iOS 14 a regression in many ways (memory leaks, windows-esque UI, ...)
- fsflover 5y agoIt's a problem of long-term support. At some point, the old Linux version is not supported anymore and any newly discovered bugs become a problem.