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If lineageOS (formerly cyanogenmod) is available for your old smartphone (or tablet) it will give it many more years.
by ck2 4y ago
If lineageOS (formerly cyanogenmod) is available for your old smartphone (or tablet) it will give it many more years.
- jabl 4y agoThere's also postmarketOS, which is more like a 'normal' Linux distro, so probably a better choice if you want to use the phone as some sort of compute node.
- alejoar 4y agoWhat's beautiful about pmos is that you can use docker on it. Very easily you can set up a very functional home lab/server off an old phone. I did so with an old OnePlus 5
- EamonnMR 4y agoBig if though. Each device requires special support from the community, and even big name devices don't always make it.
- jdiff 4y agoPlus some providers mandate that bootloaders can't be unlocked if sold bundled with their service, even if that device is normally unlock-friendly.
- jacooper 4y agoNot for server workloads though. Docker is still a PITA to run on android, needing a custom kernel and also a patched version of docker https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d74bd770dce27 https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d...