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[–] 98 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is great news!

For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.

If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?

    i'm going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that's only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.

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    the newest device on that list is 5 years old. is this project still active?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS

    as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace

    basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work

    if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5

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