Everyone keeps looking to Sailfish as a FOSS alternative to Android. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the "swipe UI" in Sailfish is proprietary. As for the r

Everyone keeps looking to Sailfish as a FOSS alternative to Android. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the "swipe UI" in Sailfish is proprietary. As for the rest of the OS, it's just Mer (ie. a fork of MeeGo). As AOSP is a fully functional OS even without Google's proprietary bits, I'd say Android is still the better bet. If you are that dedicated, you can use pure AOSP and load all your apps onto the SD card and simply install with the package manager. It's as easy as installing .debs on a Debian based distro or installing from .dmg on a Mac. I think the big takeaway from this is that Mer will be compatible with a bunch more Android devices. This means you can then install Plasma Active on top of it, and have a pure FOSS mobile OS that actually performs well (Plasma Active seems to run quite slick on the first gen Nexus 7 anyways).