Re:Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
by HybridStatAnim8 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:56PM
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GrapheneOS requires the bootloader be locked for a complete install. But it does require the bootloader be unlockable and support yellowboot.
GrapheneOS, Android, and android based OSs, are all linux distros.
Re:Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
by jauntywundrkind on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:42PM
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Correct and correct.
I think most readers are able to understand what I mean when I say Linux.
Given that Android doesn't respect me as a user at all, that it sandboxes me out of my own system, I can maybe regard it as a Linux perhaps, but as it ships: it's never my Linux. It's Google's Linux. Running on my device.
One of the most exciting things is that GrapheneOS folks insist the bootloader not be locked. I continue to think actual Linux on the phone is kind of just waiting for us, that it'd be imminently possible. If we had some modern-ish devices with unlocked bootloaders. Especially if they are Qualcomm chipsets, which have been seeing a lot more linux upstreaming/mainlining support than any other ARM platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361686