20 Jan
2023
20 Jan
'23
2:59 a.m.
Several projects are attempting to target cell phones with (mostly) Linux variants
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_mobile_devices) Most of these are focused on
particular (or even custom) hardware, but at least one has the explicit goal of supporting
"old" hardware:
We are sick of not receiving updates shortly after
buying new phones. Sick of the walled gardens deeply integrated into Android and iOS.
That's why we are developing a sustainable, privacy and security focused free
software mobile OS that is modeled after traditional Linux distributions. With privilege
separation in mind. Let's keep our devices useful and safe until they physically
break!
https://postmarketos.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS
I'm particularly interested in this project, because it might let a few billion (!)
retired cell phones be used as portable computing and communication devices. Here is a
current snapshot of their porting progress:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
-r
On Jan 19, 2023, at 12:09, segaloco via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
... I want to be excited about the idea of potentially having a powerful computer with me
just about anywhere, but at the same time, if that power is significantly throttled (see
Game "Optimizing" Service...), and full root access to the device is not granted
easily, then it's not any more useful to me than a kiosk at Walmart. ...