Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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submitted 2 months ago by exu@feditown.com to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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[–] exu@feditown.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The core bits are open source, see Mer Project for details. One fully open project building on the same core is Nemo Mobile.

Only the UI, Android Integration and first party apps are proprietary, though the new Jolla owners are working on open sourcing their apps at least.

(There was some legal drama with their Russian investors, the original Finnish founders managed to get the rights to everything back after the investors stopped responding)

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 7 points 2 months ago

The UI is probably the hardest part to replace. Android integration can be eventually done via Waydroid (or Valve's Lepton whenever it starts to be mature enough), and the first-party apps can go the way of the dodo for all I care (as long as the community has built replacements for them already)