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PureOS mentions (13)

• Laptops with Linux

  Librem 14 by Purism, can't recall the specifics for this one; sorry*. I do remember that we owe PureOS to them. Source: about 1 year ago

• I am losing my mind while protecting my online privacy

  Another option is PureOS, and you might even consider buying privacy-oriented hardware, such as the Libram product line of computers, laptops, smartphones from Purism, which is just one among many manufacturers in this market. Source: over 1 year ago

• Are there any useable Linux phone Os besides Ubuntu Touch

  There's ClearOS https://www.clearos.com/products/clearos-editions/clearos-mobile and PureOS https://pureos.net/ which the Librem 5 uses. Source: almost 2 years ago

• GNOME is on which tablets or phones?

  Check following link. You can order gnome phone here. Https://pureos.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to keep Debian FSF "approved"?

  If you can actually use a FSF distribution (you don’t need proprietary drivers) you can use PureOS from Purism. It is based on Debian and up streams all their work back to it. https://pureos.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

postmarketOS mentions (96)

• Plasma Mobile joins the Plasma 6 megarelease with a new shell and apps

  The main OS supported by KDE Plasma Mobile is postmarketOS https://postmarketos.org/ So you have to have a phone that is supported by it ()or some other Linux distribution and then you can install it and run KDE Plasma Mobile More info is here https://plasma-mobile.org/get/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Which corporations in your opinion are the most evil for privacy, and the least evil for privacy?

  The privacy setting on IOS is mostly somkes and mirrors as most data is still phoned home, somone made a blocklist of services that „phone home” weirdly often (alltough some I understand, others are there for unknow reason to me). (here is what apple claims each of those send/do ), telemetry is way too closely tied with apple walled garden to fully disable it without loosing funcionality. OEM versions of android... Source: 5 months ago

• Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

  I'm sure you did your research. I'm writing for other readers who are interested. There are a few alternatives, more can be found but this is a selection of the most prominent offerings. /e/OS: https://e.foundation/e-os/ GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ PostmarketOS (based on Alpine Linux rather than Android): https://postmarketos.org/ (for some... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]

  Nobody else (that I saw) mentioned it, but PostmarketOS [0] has a decent number of (community) supported devices, is Free and more than a de-Googled Android distro - it's actually based on Alpine Linux. I've previously run it on my Pinephone Pro, but images are available for multiple Samsung handsets as well [1] [0] https://postmarketos.org/ [1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Transform Your Android Device into a Linux Desktop

  You actually have 80% of the control of your phone after rooting it. The remaining 20% is due to kernel variation and not having all mainline features. Most Android distributions are tailor-made Linux kernel that is very old and is stitched by cherrypicking some mainline commits. If you want full control check out postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org/. With the right hardware and software you can even run... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago