The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago

For all of those following, I emailed Rob and he confirmed that the focus of the project to start is reverse engineering binary blobs on existing android devices, but he is currently only at the discovery phase of picking which phones to start with. He is first checking LineageOS compatible phones using his toolset here: https://codeberg.org/rsavoye/librephone/src/branch/main/doc/index.md

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone think that FSF is capable of releasing a unique and good device? It's gonna be a bog-standard Android device with some software modified/removed.

Might be ok for some people still though. Also I'll be happy to be wrong about my cynicism.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn. Software has existed 40 years now?

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[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

What a nice thing to do

[–] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

I guess I'll see phones with this in my local stores at.. 10 years? Too generous, maybe 15.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (9 children)

My fear with a Linux phone is debugging and troubleshooting. Reading logs and editing text files with a phone keyboard does NOT seem fun.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

But also, just because some activities are annoying on the phone does not mean you should be locked out from them.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

RTFM!!!!!!!!

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