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The new project is LibrePhone: > Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Pro
by vintagedave 1y ago
The new project is LibrePhone:
> Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980.
I found very little info about it online. There is this github org:
https://github.com/LibrePhone https://github.com/LibrePhone
which mirrors PostMarketOS: https://github.com/LibrePhone/pmOS https://github.com/LibrePhone/pmOS, 'The Linux distribution for mobile devices and beyond…'
- microtonal 1y agoI found very little info about it online. There is this github org: Probably not related, it's unlikely that the FSF would host anything on GitHub.
- klooney 1y ago"should they just donate to postmarketos" is the sort of obvious followup
- ChickeNES 1y ago> a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980 Can they really not find ANYONE outside their bubble? A phone lives and dies by its UI and they pick someone who primarily does toolchain/CLI work? I don't get it.
- disjunct 1y agoBased on the livestream, the project is for Rob to find the freest Android ROM and phone and then reverse engineer the proprietary bits to the FSF's standards. Not very well communicated, but he seems qualified to do that.
- duskwuff 1y agoThe fact that the FSF doesn't even seem to have a web page on their own site describing LibrePhone leaves me with little expectation that this project will succeed. I can't find anything on Savoye's site or socials either.