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A comment on Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? ... by sicelo on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:06AM (#29378866)
Pine64 doesn't do any software, so the comparison is apples to oranges :-)

The software from the N9 became what today is SailfishOS (mostly FOSS, but UI closed), and for something fully FOSS, Nemo is also derived from Harmattan, https://nemomobile.net/

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Re:Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? ... by pengaru on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:26AM (#29379012)
> Pine64 doesn't do any software, so the comparison is apples to oranges :-)

True, but Pine64 facilitates the FOSS community in spades when it comes to shipping a hardware profile with mainline support, and ensuring it's trivial for Pinephone users to run alternative operating systems down to the boot loader.

I'm a developer and the N9 was completely opaque, it would have required spending significant time just to even begin figuring out how to replace the OS.

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