If our goal is the empowerment and greater freedom of people, mobile Linux appears to be a more feasible route to achieve those goals in the long term than AOSP.
Is there like a single Linux based OS that runs at least on one phone and supports basic smartphone stuff like:
Calling
Camera
GPS
Mobile Data
WiFi
All flavors of Linux I tried did fail at one point or the other. Without getting at least the basic stuff working on at least one phone all the other advantages are worthless.
There are some videos on youtube but they’re quite old. It could be daily driveable but you would need to be willing to accept some jank. There’s a video of someone using Ubuntu touch on one from like a month ago.
https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)
Is there like a single Linux based OS that runs at least on one phone and supports basic smartphone stuff like:
All flavors of Linux I tried did fail at one point or the other. Without getting at least the basic stuff working on at least one phone all the other advantages are worthless.
Nura (previously postmarketOS) can achieve this on the Oneplus 6T afaik. My pinephone technically supports all those. It’s just slow as shit.
Do you have some (recent) blog post or video to share where someone display their experience? I would be pretty interested in that.
There are some videos on youtube but they’re quite old. It could be daily driveable but you would need to be willing to accept some jank. There’s a video of someone using Ubuntu touch on one from like a month ago. https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)
it unfortunately does not support split APN networks very well, and receiving calls is somewhat inconsistent when locked
The FLX1s does!
Can you buy this anywhere? On their page it is mentioned as out of stock.
They have an FLX1s+, which is a variation on it: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1splus/
I have the FLX1s, but I’ve not tried the FLX1s+ yet. I’ve ordered one, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
@sakphul @codeinabox Define ‘Linux based’…
Something that is not based on AOSP but runs a mainline Linux kernel version (or a patched version of one) and supports the above mentioned features.