alt Hacker NewsOver the long term, we definitely need something like Linux phones. I find it bizzarre by how little companies support this mission of Linux phones.
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echoangle • today at 10:22 AM
I don’t want to be too pedantic but Android uses the Linux kernel. Degoogled Android is basically what you want.
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microtonal • today at 10:23 AM
Why do you need a Linux phone (as if Android is not a Linux phone), when there is also AOSP. If Google closes it up, it can be forked, but I don't see any fundamental benefit of throwing away decades of development done on AOSP.
It's not Linux phones that we need. We already have alternatives, like graphene and other AOSP forks.
We need corporations and governments to stop locking down and gatekeeping vital software to closed ecosystems.
A Linux phone doesn't help me when my government's 2FA system (BankID) only runs on Android and IOS phones and can only be acquired with an app store account.