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> the best route for Linux phones is going to be by taking Android phone parts and trying to make it run regular Linux > and hopefully solid enough drivers to
by jolmg 1y ago
> the best route for Linux phones is going to be by taking Android phone parts and trying to make it run regular Linux
> and hopefully solid enough drivers to build on.
This is the crux of the problem with this approach. That the drivers would remain closed-source. AFAIK, the Pinephones and Librem are the only ones with open-source drivers.
- jchw 1y agoFully understand the issues with this approach: my skepticism has been expressed in former HN comments. However, the issue is that in practice it already seems like this approach has yielded something closer to daily-driver maturity, which would make it a suitable platform for experimenting with software. It may be necessary since it's hard to justify actually doing all of the effort to build the phones with not much impressive to run on them.