Librem 5 Phone Progress Report

Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by oelmekki on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:33AM (#16177261)

Maybe you want to read their crowdfunding page and homepage, because not being an android phone is the point from the start, so I'm not sure why you seem surprised :)

It's not the first attempt, either. Before them, there has been (in no particular order) firefox OS, ubuntu phone (Unity was initially meant as a "responsive" environment for mobile, laptop and desktop), QT mobile and maybe others. For a long time, opensource leaders wanted to build a "true" linux mobile OS, this is just a new step on that road, and I hope this will finally be a successful one.

I'm not sure why you consider it to be an impossible challenge, the hard part in building a new OS was building its kernel and coreutils, and this has been solved for about 30 years. Now, it needs to be adapted for mobile specificity.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by ilikethiscmnt on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:06AM (#16177574)

I think it's worth asking ourselves if the hard part is _really_ the kernel and coreutils if as you say it's been a solved problem for 30 years.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by oelmekki on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:12AM (#16177613)

I guess I should have said "the hardest part" :) I don't mean to make ARM devs and mobile UI interfacers work look casual.

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Progress Report by pjmlp on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:43AM (#16177917)

Given even how Samsung is mis-managing Tizen, I don't have any hopes to any actual GNU/Linux based handset.

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