Re:50 days of postmarketOS
by djsumdog on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:53PM
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Same here. I don't think we'll see an Android alternative so much as more BeagleBoard/Pi like devices. The ARM ecosystem has always bothered me. The reason we don't see more alternative OSes for mobile devices is the total lack of standards.
With the PC/x86 architecture, you had a pretty basic standard. Even if you had things like a PCI modem that didn't work or an unsupported Ethernet card, you could always at least get a Linux distribution to boot on any PC. There are x86 systems that aren't PCs (PS4, Wonderswan, etc.) and it was the PC/BIOS standard that really paved the way for Linux back in the 90s/2000s.
I wish Windows would unlock their bootloaders. ARM+UEFI seems like the perfect platform for easily creating alternative OSes. Microsoft barely has a mobile market. They should really open their devices to the community.
With the PC/x86 architecture, you had a pretty basic standard. Even if you had things like a PCI modem that didn't work or an unsupported Ethernet card, you could always at least get a Linux distribution to boot on any PC. There are x86 systems that aren't PCs (PS4, Wonderswan, etc.) and it was the PC/BIOS standard that really paved the way for Linux back in the 90s/2000s.
I wish Windows would unlock their bootloaders. ARM+UEFI seems like the perfect platform for easily creating alternative OSes. Microsoft barely has a mobile market. They should really open their devices to the community.