My PinePhone Setup

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Plasma Mobile

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postmarketOS

> All this time I was aware that the core of my phone, it's kernel, was closed source and probably out-of-date. Android runs the Linux kernel which is GPLv2 (and thus open source). For a couple reasons this isn't seen as "true" Linux or open source. 1. Drivers are often proprietary 2. SoC manufactures release their versions of the Linux kernel without integrating them into the "upstream" manage by Linus Torvalds so even open source drivers are hard to use. 3. Android uses an non-standard user-space and UI (running apps in the DalvikVM). "Normal" or "desktop" Linux tends to use the GNU userspace with one of several Freedesktop.org compliant desktop interfaces on top. The use of the GNU userspace leads the FSF to call this GNU/Linux lead to the GNU/Linux naming controversy [0]. However, because Android uses the Linux kernel, it is possible to bring "real" or "desktop" Linux to old Android handsets. Postmarketos [1] is a project intending to do this. Several old Android SoCs now run a "close to mainline" "normal" Linux kernel and can be used as Linux phones. I actually use a OnePlus 6 running postmarketOS. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy [1] https://postmarketos.org/.

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