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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
TL;DR: The postmarketOS Linux distribution is far from being usable as day to day OS. But instead of just a demo interface, which was not suitable for mobile devices, it runs KDE's Plasma Mobile, LuneOS UI (remember WebOS?), Hildon (re
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PostmarketOS inches closer to letting you breathe new life into old phones(liliputing.com)
5 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|1 comments
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219 days of postmarketOS(postmarketos.org)
17 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|0 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Awesome device, I didn't know about it! Added it to the devices wishlist in the postmarketOS wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Device_Wishlist#Mainline_... Thanks for sharing!
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Supporting the Librem Phone crowdfunding campaign helps postmarketOS (+friends)(postmarketos.org)
18 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|2 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Here we go: https://postmarketos.org/blog/feed.atom (Thanks to new contributor marten-de-vries for implementing it so fast \o/ < https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.org/issues&
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Obviously we will name it postpostmarketOS then ;)
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Thanks for letting us know. For now, you can subscribe https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.org - and I will make an issue to add a RSS feed!
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
That would be one future I would like to live in!
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Who said, that we are "two guys"? I've started with this alone, before I considered pmbootstrap good enough. Since I've released it, we have 40-60 people hanging out in the irc/matrix channel, and a good bunch of th
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
We have used the usb network configuration code from SailfishOS' hybris-boot as reference to implement our own version for the initramfs already. What these projects can share is mainlining kernels at least, and there could be more. We
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Check out the https://ubports.com/ project, they have continued Ubuntu Phone (which has officially been discontinued), and they have made really impressive progress since then. You can really run it on a phone and have all
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
No, all you need is the source code to a kernel that works on the phone. This could be from LineageOS, AOSP, TWRP, CyanogenMOD (if they didn't transfer it to LineageOS yet), or any other random repository on github with "kernel&qu
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
If you have some time to spare and your oneplus one is not your day-to-day phone, you could give porting pmOS to it a try: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-... All you need is some
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Sailfish isn't open enough for me, they have closed source UI components and I couldn't even find the build recipes for the packages they provide when I tried. They do not support full disk encryption, although it has been asked f
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
If it works on Linux, why not? Everyone is encouraged to work on what they like best, and we will together, as a community, pick sane defaults from the best components we have. See also: https://github.com/postmarketOS/
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Perfect! Drebrez already made decent progress with the HTC desire: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/HTC-Bravo-%... Make sure to talk to him in the IRC/matrix channel, so you can join the
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
If you have some time to spare, the best way to get there is through contributions, we all do this in our free time after all. With some decent Linux knowledge and help from the community, you should be able to get a port done in most cases
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
In its current state, this project does not target end users, but fellow developers who find this interesting and want to join in. So if you count these blog posts as releases, it follows the release early, release often principle to get in
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Luckily the battery drivers are all included in the Android kernels so far (which we use right now). Besides that, it will work like with Linux on your Laptop - carefully craft energy efficient programs together and you will get a nice batt
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Actually, to port a device all you need is some Linux knowledge. Check out the guide: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-...
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50 days of postmarketOS(ollieparanoid.github.io)
219 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|55 comments
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PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year security nightmare(ollieparanoid.github.io)
13 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|1 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
I don't think it is realistic, that all stargazers will help with development :) So currently the project is nothing but a proof of concept with a solid base component (pmbootstrap). I guess with "production phone" you mean,
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PostmarketOS: Overwhelmed by feedback and next steps(ollieparanoid.github.io)
73 points by ollieparanoid 9y ago|9 comments
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
It means: remove the chroot folder (safely, with umounting everything first). You can do it with "pmbootstrap zap", it will ask interactively, which chroots you want to delete.
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
What do you mean with credible? The source is all here: https://github.com/postmarketOS/ But from reading through the comments, no one has analyzed it yet, if you mean that. It has less than 2000 lines of code, and it
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Where does it say that?
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
> Could you help me understand your reasoning behind not pairing up with or taking advantage of existing projects like Halium or LineageOS? From the article: > Of course I am not the only one, that came to this conclusion - especially
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by ollieparanoid 9y ago
Yep. I have not fully decided yet on which part I will work next (that sort of depends on the feedback by the community). But I definitely want a solid base.

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