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Fairphone 5
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FLX1
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Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat) (itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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The mobile Linux space is more active than most people realize. Projects like postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, and KDE Plasma Mobile have been chipping away at the idea that your phone or tablet has to run something made by Google or Apple.

And while none of them are household names yet, they are picking up real interest from power users who want more control over their hardware. Of course, most people stick with Android or iOS, and that is fine.

Both platforms are mature, well-supported, and not going anywhere. But for the ones who want something genuinely open and free of platform lock-in, things are getting better.

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[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Eh, the BIOS is ultimately just some code on a ROM chip, it working the way it does was a design decision by IBM, it wasn't because of the CPU they used. There's nothing technical standing in the way of making a PC-like ecosystem based on ARM chips.

The reason phones don't have this is because they're (almost) always fully integrated systems where you don't ever swap out any of its parts for different ones, so there's no incentive to create a flexible system, both on the hardware and software side, that can deal with different hardware on-line over just baking in all the hardware-specific stuff off-line.