4 ms·

Well, if you want a mass market device that runs Linux, you have to meet the market. Otherwise we can start tracking 2525 as the year of Linux on the smartphone

• bigfishrunning 2mo ago
  The concept of a mass market device is sort of incompatible with the freedoms we generally associate with linux -- Android is really the closest thing we can hope for. It runs a linux kernel, a very non-standard userspace, and is relatively locked down (when compared to a general purpose linux distribution) I think "linux smartphone" would end up looking very similar -- some UI on top of a kernel with a very non-LSB userspace; therefore the concept is really not all that compelling
  • tclancy 2mo ago
    > The concept of a mass market device is sort of incompatible with the freedoms we generally associate with linux But take that far enough and you get Stallman'd into a corner where someone points out that's great, but no phone for you.