So with all the talk of new Linux phones, what's the deal with this thing?
So with all the talk of new Linux phones, what's the deal with this thing?
John Long
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Nathaniel Thompson
that pinephone apparently supports it
Nolan Rogers
It's good but you'll have to buy it while using a foreign VPN or proxy, or somehow find an up-to-date pirated image. Works on a few major phones.
Sebastian Sanchez
Build on top of libhybris so it will always lag behind contemporary affairs.
Anthony Howard
Even the most excitable fan of SailfishOS I knew has moved on.
I still want them to succeed.
Lucas Allen
>had to buy a specific phone model for it
>a few months later they change the phone they develop Android support for to another model (that isn't even much of an upgrade)
>expect their users to buy a new phone and a new Sailfish license to be able to continue to use Android apps
I was rooting for Sailfish, but Jolla really dropped the ball there.
Also read the comments on their forum by their employees, they're kind of assholes.
Sebastian Ramirez
if you want to run android apps you probably want to stick with android
Jace Gutierrez
Huawei might be looking at it as an alternative to Android.
Ryder Fisher
>new Linux phones
What, like 90% of all smartphones?
Asher Mitchell
they are looking at using huawei tablets with aurora for a census or something like that, with few hundred k devices, would love to get my hands on one
Ian Martinez
no
gnu.org
The kernel is the only thing Android has in common to the GNU/Linux OS known colloquially as 'Linux'. The rest is Google botnet and proprietary AIDS
I'm not talking about the blobby kernel shit either. I'm not that autistic. I'm talking about the userland itself.
The typical hardware/firmware is also troubling. Why can't I
>plug in a thing
>download OS of choice
>flash OS to thing
>shut off phone
>start up phone with some special method
>choose to boot off thing
>install new OS to internal storage, formatting it and wiping the old OS
I can't do that? Oh right because our current smartphone ecosystem is locked down as shit
Lincoln Anderson
>The kernel is the only thing Android has in common to the GNU/Linux
"The kernel" is called Linux. GNU is an OS, Linux is a kernel. Linux is used in Android.
James Jenkins
>GNU is an OS
Jonathan Jackson
That's what it is, yes. And Linux is one of its kernels.
Joseph Kelly
GNU is a scam
William White
Android is Linux.
Cooper Davis
Now with pinephone, librem, fxtec pro and cosmo communicator all launching and all most likely getting community editions, seems this is the year of jolla smartphone
Hudson Moore
Seems to be the only non-android OS so far that has a working and usable ofono support (for geminiPDA and cosmo), probably also on pinephone and purism as they are launching without working software (yikes) it seems from the latest announcements, been using as daily driver for over 4 years now, it's far from perfect, but usability is much better than the rest (back arrow in top left corner, thanks my thuuumb needed some exercise)
Levi Cook
This is possible one of the most dumbest posts i've ever seen on Jow Forums.
Anthony Adams
It's far from it, when you say runs linux you usually mean the distro as a whole with a proper glibc userland that allows you to compile and run all the linux software you care about, noone cares about kernel, it's the ability to git clone/make all the cool stuff out there
Bentley Hall
So when you say Linux you specifically don't mean Linux?
Elijah Thomas
Noone gives a fuck about: muh technically correct terms, go away stallman and take your bionic abomination with you (or we'll argue technically its gnu+bionic+linux-glibc)
Alexander Clark
>Trading the botnet for chinknet
Same difference.
Joshua Morris
4 years and you dont know you can just drag from middle to go back? If any app makes you use the button its bad design.
t. meego and sailfish user for 8 years
Evan White
no sfos app has that, pretty sure this is standard on ios or android as seen that on screenshots and it's just absurd design decision