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Furi OS was what turned me away. Never heard of it and that makes me realise we don't have an android alternative OS which is permanent. Do we have any OS which

Furi OS was what turned me away. Never heard of it and that makes me realise we don't have an android alternative OS which is permanent. Do we have any OS which is permanent? Shouldn't we have one?

GranPC 2y ago
FuriOS is a derivate of Droidian, which in turn is basically Debian with Halium support. So it's pretty much Debian + some custom patches for usability, hardware support, performance, so on. We intend to upstream as many of our changes as possible as time permits, but right now we are laser focused on improving the experience day in and day out.
- deng 2y ago
  Hi, thanks for answering questions here. How do you handle device encryption?
  - GranPC 2y ago
    Once you turn on full disk encryption, the phone will reboot once and begin to encrypt the entire filesystem in the background. Further reboots will require that you input your FDE password (which can be different from your lock screen password/PIN) in a minimal rootfs-based UI.
- freedomben 2y ago
  Are all of your patches open source? Given enough time, could a user build a "factory image" of FuriOS from source?
  - GranPC 2y ago
    Yes. It doesn't even require a lot of time, all the build scripts are on our GitHub.
- anoncow 2y ago
  Thanks for the answer. All the best!
yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
What do you mean by "permanent"?
- anoncow 2y ago
  My specific definition: 20 years later when a retired me boots up the device, it will be able to run the calculator app without shutting down.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    That sounds like a hardware problem. But if the hardware works, why would you not be able to open any old app?
    - mcflubbins 2y ago
      I think they are worried about some cloud service shutting down preventing them from using their phone.
stonogo 2y ago
PostmarketOS is trying to be this.
mcflubbins 2y ago
Sailfish is an Android alternative (that can also run Android apps): https://sailfishos.org/ https://sailfishos.org/

Furi OS was what turned me away. Never heard of it and that makes me realise we don't have an android alternative OS which is permanent. Do we have any OS which is permanent? Shouldn't we have one?

GranPC 2y ago

FuriOS is a derivate of Droidian, which in turn is basically Debian with Halium support. So it's pretty much Debian + some custom patches for usability, hardware support, performance, so on. We intend to upstream as many of our changes as possible as time permits, but right now we are laser focused on improving the experience day in and day out.

deng 2y ago
Hi, thanks for answering questions here. How do you handle device encryption?
- GranPC 2y ago
  Once you turn on full disk encryption, the phone will reboot once and begin to encrypt the entire filesystem in the background. Further reboots will require that you input your FDE password (which can be different from your lock screen password/PIN) in a minimal rootfs-based UI.
freedomben 2y ago
Are all of your patches open source? Given enough time, could a user build a "factory image" of FuriOS from source?
- GranPC 2y ago
  Yes. It doesn't even require a lot of time, all the build scripts are on our GitHub.
anoncow 2y ago
Thanks for the answer. All the best!

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago

What do you mean by "permanent"?

anoncow 2y ago
My specific definition: 20 years later when a retired me boots up the device, it will be able to run the calculator app without shutting down.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  That sounds like a hardware problem. But if the hardware works, why would you not be able to open any old app?
  - mcflubbins 2y ago
    I think they are worried about some cloud service shutting down preventing them from using their phone.

stonogo 2y ago

PostmarketOS is trying to be this.

mcflubbins 2y ago

Sailfish is an Android alternative (that can also run Android apps): https://sailfishos.org/ https://sailfishos.org/