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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by bwindels on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:07AM (#12588924)
The fairphone 2 is "fairly" hacker-friendly. The bootloader is not locked. They provide android stripped of google mobile services, and Ubuntu phone is reportedly 70% ported. Sailfish OS could also be an option if either Fairphone or Jolla port it. All of these setups still require binary blobs for firmware, but that's as good as it gets on mobile I think.
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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by AsyncAwait on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:23AM (#12589047)
> Sailfish OS could also be an option if either Fairphone or Jolla port it.

It seems to have already happened[1].

[1] - https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/Insta...

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by skykooler on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:36AM (#12589454)
yes, but it's not an "official" image yet, meaning it won't receive support from the Jolla developers (and is missing some things like the Android app compatibility layer)
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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by compuguy on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:45PM (#12593877)
When they release a version of it with US 3G/4G bands, it would be an option.
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