Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Depends on what you want. A used Pixel 3a or some other model can be very cheap and has decent mainline support.

    • NightFantom@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Does it now? I literally have one, tried postmarketos iirc, and it kept failing at several steps. Eventually put graphene on it which did work, but that’s not quite linux.

      Edit: nope, I have a 4 or 4a, nvm

      I was talking about buying a phone that works out of the box primarily, but you’re right, buying an older phone is an option. Though I’d like to have something on par with a flagship google/oneplus/samsung device in screen resolution, battery life and picture quality mostly

      • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I’ve got a Fairphone 5. For Mobian we still need to add the patches for speaker audio. Then it is a usable phone. Camera works, but image quality is not yet the same as for Android, but it is slowly getting there. For now I just carry an Android phone for photos, but I expect that to be unnecessary within this year, seeing how much effort some people put into it.