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I don't understand the point of this article. Why is PostmarketOS singled out over the 20 or so Linux distributions that run on the Pinephone?
by jjmellon 5y ago
I don't understand the point of this article. Why is PostmarketOS singled out over the 20 or so Linux distributions that run on the Pinephone?
- selfhoster11 5y agoIt runs on more than just the PinePhone, enabling reuse of older smartphones.
- jeroenhd 5y agoHonestly, I don't think pmOS is any better than any other Linux on the Pinephone. However, pmOS is pretty unique in their quest to mainline other, closed, Android smartphones by making shitty code vendors put out good enough to be merged and by making their own drivers and shims to get hardware to work. I don't see why you'd need a Pinephone to work on pmOS, unless you want to develop a pmOS application or feature for an ARM device that has all the features up and running. It's more lightweight than some of its competition, for sure, but honestly it's not really better or worse in terms of hackability.