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These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired)

https://feddit.it/post/27083118

These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired) - Feddit.it

Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it: - Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS - Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS - Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS - For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS

Show threadlinuleFeb 25
Reading the problems here with the pure Linux platforms, why is there no initiative to get Linux mobile up to speed? The EU at least is looking for tech independence, funding should be possible.
Show threadpinball_wizard

why is there no initiative to get Linux mobile up to speed?

There is. It just lacks a corporate sponsor, so it is going slowly.

Feb 25 at 2:01pmWeb
Show threadJay🚩Feb 25
Corporate sponsorship for GPL FOSS os will be difficult for mobile devices as they don’t see value in return. They will probably go for MIT or BSD system in future
Show threadlinuleFeb 25
We should have now enough interest on a political level, which can well replace or create new incentive structures for the corporate sponsorship. There are also some EU phones that come with Ubuntu Touch, or Sailfish, like Jolla and Volla phone and a couple others using Android variants (e.g Fairphone) which could cooperate too. The argument with the phone towers is not familiar to me, how exactly do they benefit from the current monopolies?
Show threaddjdarrenFeb 26

It is also slowed because there is very little fully open source phone hardware, today - and of what there is, very little of it is pocket sized.

What I don’t understand is why, if Pixels can be unlocked and locked back up again - which is part of why Graphene only works on Pixels - why don’t more alternative OSs target Pixels? Ubuntu Touch, for example, only supports the 3a. I have a 9 so I can run Graphene, but I’d love to be able to put some flavour of Linux on it.

Show threadpinball_wizardFeb 26

if Pixels can be unlocked and locked back up again - which is part of why Graphene only works on Pixels - why don’t more alternative OSs target Pixels?

I don’t know, but my guess is it is just a resource challenge. Since Ubuntu isn’t leveraging Android at the lowest level, they probably have to write hardware drivers for every supported phone.