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Luca Weiss Sep 4, 2023

The Software Longevity Team at Fairphone (which I'm part of 😀) is excited to announce that today, following the Fairphone 5 launch, we are also releasing the source code for its Android 13 operating system.

You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on https://code.fairphone.com. The source tree contains all Android and Linux kernel sources that we can publish, excluding some proprietary components.

For more details see: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-5-source-code-release/99616

Open Source at Fairphone — Fairphone Open Source

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Hugo 雨果 Sep 4, 2023

@z3ntu I hope that this phone will be available unlocked without having to sign up with Google and ask Google for their permissions! 🙏

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Martin 🧀Sep 4, 2023

@whynothugo already the case, check out Murena

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Aiono Sep 4, 2023

@mart_e
I didn't fully research but Murena seems also incorporates their own cloud stuff and it's not vanilla AOSP. Why would I move away from a company to another?

I know not all companies are the same for respect of privacy but essentially what I want is vanilla Android with no bloat. Murena doesn't seem to provide that if I understand correctly. Which means I pay for stuff I don't want.
@whynothugo

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Mathijs

@aiono @mart_e @whynothugo last time I ran /e/ it just had davx5 and some other foss tools integrated, which was trivial to just point at my nextcloud instance in stead of the default murena thing. This was a while ago, do it's possible some things there have changed.

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Hugo 雨果 Sep 4, 2023

@mvgorcum @aiono @mart_e I looked at it a year or the ago and the general experience wasn’t good. It felt like they wanted to doGoogle as just be the new Google themselves. It’s been a while though, so an FP5 from them might be a good opportunity to try it out again.