I’d take a look at postmarketOS instead
No, that mobile OS is not ready, and probably won’t ever be. I have it installed on an OnePlusOne, it’s just alpha. Postmarket OS is much better and further along, but still not good for day to day usage. I eventually ended up on Murena e/OS, which is based on a more private, totally de-googled version of LineageOS (which is Android).
As already mentioned, postmarketOS is probably closest to what you want for an open source android replacement, though it’s still not 100% there if you’re looking for a perfect alternative.
Personally I’m going to try it out as a daily driver when I can get a cheap pixel 8 when the 9 comes out later this year
Its interesting how the postmarket os has firefox and thunderbird tweaked for the phone.
And it works insanely good on the OnePlus6. I‘m working on that rn. If you want „perfect“ without spending money (donating) or contributing, I suggest proprietary stuff though. Not because I believe its good. I just want to show people that „perfect“ is not a healthy demand.
Nope. Dead project barely kept alive by a few people for some reason.
The recent progress on VoLTE and 5G and all the recent apps being released for it say otherwise.
It’s like two guys. Working on downstream of all things.
Find me a public code repository, a social , or some other cohesive piece of confirmation this is still in development recently, and I’ll delete my comment.
Please don’t delete your comment. I find it very annoying to follow a conversation when one party has deleted their half of correspondence. Here’s a comment tgat suggests otherwise, seeing as they had a Stand on FOSDEM '24: https://forums.ubports.com/post/78315
An article about their changes in release cycle that suggests they’re still updating it: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/announcement-of-release-model-changes-3920 (More Specifically, the first paragraph under the "What will happen to the current Ubuntu Touch OTAs based on Ubuntu 20.04 suggests they will be working on releasing 24.04 when that happens.
So that’s about the “still in development recently”.
As for “only 2 guys” a quick look seems to suggest you’re right.
Regardless, if I had to switch to or at least try Mobile Linux, I’d be going for Postmarket OS, Mobian or Droidian in that order of priority as Postmarket OS seems to be the most popular and well-maintained of them all while also being the most cool and featureful one (imo).
dead project
alive
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I just randomly found a OnePlus with a community build of PostmarketOS (Alpine).
I would not use something based off Ubuntu, but the general Linux Desktop is either insecure (traditional apps) or too resource intensive for phones (flatpak).
Also the boot process is way less secure than on a Pixel with the separated Secure Element and all the verification mechanisms.
In general Android uses hardware encryption, profiles are seperately encrypted, and it uses an equivalent to the TPM for that. Many Linux distros are just catching up on that.
Updates can be equally stable and in the background when using rpm-ostree.
Idle battery life is worse. My old GrapheneOS phone that I use as an mp3 player lasts for 2 weeks.
Tons of Apps rely on Android libraries and Waydroid is very outdated currently. If they update to Android 14 and if you use a base OS with SELinux, the Android security model is intact. (The Android sandbox relies entirely on SELinux, without SELinux Apps can break your phone or invade it).
On Android you have the work profile, which allows you to run a set of isolated apps next to the others, apart from the normal App sandbox.
Android is pretty great and GrapheneOS is the best variant of it, if your priorities are
- Stability (reliability, not some weird Debian stuff)
- Fast updates, often faster than Googles or slightly behind (as they are no Google certified OS they dont get early access, UNLIKE Fairphone which still manages to not ship updates for months)
- Security, Privacy by core design
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I did that exact thing and it is basically unusable. And that was before all network connectivity broke leaving it actually unusable. I also haven’t been able to flash the normal rom back so it’s basically a brick now.
0/10 would not recommend
