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Fernvale Kits – Lack of Interest – Discount(laforge.gnumonks.org)
4 points by ollieparanoid 8y ago|0 comments
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
@justicz: that's one clever hack, thanks for explaining in detail how it works! In case somebody is wondering about Alpine Linux based postmarketOS, this is what I wrote on /r/linux regarding this issue: postmarketOS is direc
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PostmarketOS at Akademy 2018(postmarketos.org)
5 points by ollieparanoid 8y ago|0 comments
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
The way chriswwweb quotes the article is leaving out important parts. It puts emphasis on the "rate limited API" wording, as if that was the part that matters. Let's take a look at what's missing: > But independent of
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PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab(postmarketos.org)
84 points by ollieparanoid 8y ago|27 comments
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
In the software sense, sustainable software is software that can be maintained. That means in practice not to have thousands of forks of the same piece of software (like it is done with the Linux kernel in Android). Instead, sharing as much
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
We would not even need the mainline kernel to decouple images from particular hardware. In postmarketOS we only have a hand full of device specific packages (ideally only one per device), and one of them is the downstream kernel for non-mai
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
In case you should have time at some point, there is already a proof of concept with LVM made by drebrez. It is basically working after the installation, but all the use cases that are not straight forward (such as re-installing postmarketO
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
We looked into that as well, and besides missing restore functionality, the problem is that it needs to access GitHub's rate limited API to crawl through one issue after another. In gitlab there is one API call to prepare a full back
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
Username checks out ;) But seriously: I can only imagine how many hours each individual has put in writing all these messages on github. Some pull requests and issues read like full blog posts, and oftentimes we reference them in the source
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by ollieparanoid 8y ago
For people curious about all the GitHub links: we are probably switching to gitlab soon. This has been in discussion since October and recent events with Microsoft tipped the scales for us. Besides the issue of trusting Microsoft or not, Gi
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One Year of PostmarketOS: Mainline Calling(postmarketos.org)
123 points by ollieparanoid 8y ago|29 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Full title (HN has a limit of 80 characters): > postmarketOS Low-Level: Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Cellular Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones
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Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones(postmarketos.org)
147 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|13 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Unfortunately we couldn't reproduce it with Firefox 58. If this still happens, please reply here: https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.org/issues/48
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Awesome! \o/
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
For most devices, we're running the vendor forks of the Linux kernel (mostly Android). The source of all of them is available, just like the mainline Linux kernel. With that being said, the stock Linux kernel and its vendor forks conta
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
> that is it's more important to first have stuff work and then make it look appealing or making it usable by non-technical users. Exactly! With that being said, contributions from UX people are welcome of course.
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Keep in mind that the project at its current state does not aim at consumers, it's looking for fellow hackers who want to join the effort to create a sustainable alternative OS that can be used on phones that would otherwise be thrown
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Actually bootloaders are not always as perfectly secure as they may seem [0]. For example, McBitter from postmarketOS is a low level reverse engineering contributor, who made remarkable progress on opening up the bootloader of Mediatek devi
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Most phones consist of similar chips, so as long as the Linux kernel has support for these, it is possible to run something like postmarketOS on closed devices as well. It is harder, sometimes you need to hack the bootloader to get it done
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Thanks for letting us know, we'd love to fix that. Which browser and OS do you use, and how did you turn on a dark theme there? Bug reports can be made here btw: https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.org&#x2
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Good idea, added it to the potential apps wiki page [0] (feel free to add more apps!). The upcoming Matrix client for the open and recently funded Librem 5 phone[1] also looks promising. It will be one interface for doing both regular calls
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
If you have some time to spare and want to learn something new, just try to get postmarketOS on one of them. Here are some loose ends to start with (not only iPod related, Apple in general): [0] If you get stuck somewhere, the community is
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
I think it can be done, since there was the android on iphone project. In theory, one would need to find the Linux kernel fork that was used at the time, treat it as "vendor" kernel and start the port: https://wiki.post
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
If you are interested in this and have some time to spare: You should be able to flash something like your regular desktop Linux on it already. It's no where as functional as the original device was by now, but it's free of the tr
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
It varies per device, but the wiki also has some information about which firmware is needed/where more research needs to be done/which free software re-implementations exist. One example: https://wiki.postmarketos.org&#
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
The biggest difference is, that Android's build system is completely avoided as of now. The system consists of small packages, and you can easily modify those parts without rebuilding the entire system. Regarding blobs, right now there
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
There's also the official blog post, which is kind of a long read. But it talks about the progress that has been made in detail and with lots of photos and some artwork: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/12&#
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PostmarketOS inches closer to letting you breathe new life into old phones(liliputing.com)
3 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|1 comments

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