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The year of the Linux Phone is coming!

• samat 1y ago
  DHH has not completed his desktop Linux quest yet…
• MrDresden 1y ago
  There sadly isn't a single viable option for a Linux mobile phone out there. - Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business ethics. - Pine64 has equally bad hardware but reasonable prices. I don't like the Hong-Kong connection though. Not sure how the security patching environment is in practice. The only option on the table as I see it is buying from the devil and installing GrapheneOS.
  • opengrass 1y ago
    https://postmarketos.org/ https://postmarketos.org/
    • lostmsu 1y ago
      The latest phone from https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices was released in 2021.
      • opengrass 1y ago
        It won't be bleeding edge but the same reason people buy laptops with Core2.
  • john61 1y ago
    There is also jolla / sailfishos built by ex Nokia engineers. The Russians forked it and are useing it in government / industry.
  • Klonoar 1y ago
    FuriLabs has shipped a usable device for going on two hardware releases now. Yes, it currently builds on top of Hallium. Anyone who thinks this should be a sticking point has their head in the sand; the device and effort is how you get a usable ecosystem rolling.
  • fsflover 1y ago
    > Purism runs ancient hardware https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/ > charges way too much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355 > questionable business ethics They retrospectively changed their return policy in order to not get bankrupt. AFAIK everything is find now. I'm a happy owner of Librem 5 btw.