There are plenty of ways we could go about building a mobile OS commons.
Most obviously AOSP could be forked, with distros like Replicant, /e/OS Lineageand Graphene rebasing on a community-driven variant of Android. With a de-Goggled stewardship organisation they all contribute dev resources and funds to as they can.
Also Mobile GNU is forging ahead. If you want to try it out, get hold of a PinePhone, Librem5, or an Android device that supports postmarketOS.
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If you use mobile apps, I strongly encourage you to figure out how to pay app developers who publish full source code, under free licenses.
Especially those who go to the effort to make their apps work on the Mobile GNU OS, as well as the duopoly mobile OS (Android and iOS). So you can keep using them if you escape Goggle and grApple's clutches, by getting a Mobile GNU device like the PinePhone or Librem5 (and hopefully many more to come)
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@worik
> I have a couple of "ruggedised" tablets that run linux and have USB femal slots for loading OS
Something like this?
I finally got around to testing a bunch of GNU/Linux chat apps that support the @matrix protocol. Not one of them was suitable for production use;
... which I'm presuming means there still isn't a functional Matrix client for mobile GNU devices like the PinePhone and Librem5.
The GNU Project turned 40 on Tuesday. Congratulations GNU!
In honour of the achievements of the multitude of talented people who have contributed to GNU over the last 40 years, I'm going to pull finger and teach mysefl how to install an updated mobile GNU OS on my PinePhone (props to the @PINE64 crew).
@kyle
> I was able to use my Librem 5 and Pure Maps for navigation throughout my trip. As general purpose navigation tool it did the job
Yet more encouragement to update the OS on my PinePhone and start using it...
> GPS would drift 60-100 ft sometimes, moving me off route
I've also noticed this at times with OSMAnd+ on Android. Especially when using it to navigate while in a motor vehicle, as opposed to on foot or bike.
"When I was inside, I often found myself using it with an external monitor using it’s included dock.
With this setup, I was surprised at how capable the PinePhone was as a laptop. I often found myself editing documents in LibreOffice, and at one point even managed to edit a video using Kdenlive!
Overall, even with its quirks, my year with the #PinePhone went quite well,and I never really found my self longing for my Android."
#JacobCrume, Jan 2022
When Pine64 announced the PinePhone in 2019, no one could have foreseen the tremendous impact it would have on mobile Linux, desktop Linux, and privacy as a whole. As one of the few phones designed specifically to run desktop Linux, it had all the features of a low-end Android phone,
Anyone out there willing to get on a voice/ video call and talk me through installing a fresh OS on a PinePhone? Sometimes over the next couple of weeks would be great.
I'm an old hand at replacing Windows with GNU/Linux on desktops and laptops, but I've never tried to install an OS on a mobile device.
@jjardon
> what do people think we should use for #linux on #mobile topics?
#MobileGNU. Android is already Linux on mobile. What you're describing is mobile OS that have GNU as the userland on top of the Linux kernel, instead of Android.
Strypey
Fish/Meercat 😷 