Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device

Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by hackuser on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:36PM (#12860371)

Thanks! Is it documented somewhere?

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by shmerl on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:23PM (#12860603)

* https://plasma-mobile.org/technology/

* https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/

In the second link you can see a reference to KDE Neon, which is development distro based on Kubuntu.

See also: https://neon.kde.org

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by hackuser on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:26AM (#12861802)

Thanks for responding. I'm still having trouble finding the information:

> * https://plasma-mobile.org/technology/

This page doesn't mention the OS, afaict.

> * https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/

This page seems to describe installing Plasma Mobile on top of Cyanogenmod, a fork of Android. Neon is mentioned only under "OLD INSTRUCTIONS AND ERRATA (no longer needed)".

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by shmerl on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:04AM (#12861908)

Old instructions show what it is. The base is the same.

See for example: https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-team-launches-plasma-mobile...

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by hackuser on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:01PM (#12866341)

Thanks for responding to all my questions. fyi: The dev chimed in later in this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861481

It turns out it runs Neon, in a container, on top of Cyanogenmod.

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by shmerl on Thursday November 03, 2016 @11:30PM (#12870149)

Minimal Cyanongenmod base refers to the kernel and some blob drivers, there is nothing else there from CM. So it's actually normal glibc Linux, which uses some hardware drivers for Android through libhybris.

You can read more about the approach here:

* https://mer-project.blogspot.ca/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-an...

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