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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
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- Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
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Linux Mobile Distros:
- Sailfish🇫🇮
- Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪
- Nura🇨🇭
- Mobian
- Pure OS🇺🇸
- FuriOS🇺🇸
- Plasma Mobile🇩🇪
- LuneOS
- openSUSE Mobile🇩🇪
- Nemomobile
- Droidian
- Mobile NixOS
- ExpidusOS
- Maemo Leste
- Manjaro Arm
- Tizen
- WebOS
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- Fairphone 6🇳🇱
- Jolla Phone🇫🇮
- Volla Phone🇩🇪
- Shift Phone🇩🇪
- FLX1🇺🇸
- Librem 5🇺🇸
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Might be a caching issue but the banner image still shows the old name for me.
I meant the sidebar, the banner will take longer due to having to place the logo.
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Guess all my posts are outdated now but i do like the new name.
I unironically love the name, but it's definitely going to take me some time to get used to.
Yeah, "postmarketOS" had become a bit of a misnomer, since brand new phones can have it installed.
It worked wonderfully to get the point across; "This is an OS you flash after your phone is no longer supported"
Nura is nice, I do like it, but I doubt it'll have the same instant "Oh I get it" that the name "postmarketOS" had. I could be wrong though.
The people who understand the meaning of a post-market operative system will already have experience installing Linux on their computers, in which case postmarketOS is no longer really a meaningful description.
I got used to pmOS, but never really liked it. Loving Nura, though it'll take a while to get used to.
So what is a good medium/cheap phone from the last 3 years where Nura can be installed without any risk of failure or damage?
List of working devices can be found here - https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Devices
Unfortunately there are few with complete functionality. I believe the project has been on hold while they do an audit and figure out governance. Hopefully the name change means that process is nearing completion and the focus can return to device functionality. Forgive me if i'm mistaking this for another project though.
Not a single one?
FP6, "unofficially" as in, the patches are in a newer kernel version iirc, so when Nura catches up to said version, all the patches will work out of the box. ✨ For more info, I'd suggest checking this Community for all the FP6 updates
So, a phone that's still well in the support window of the original vendor plus probably years more via LineageOS. I don't see a ton of value in postmarketOS on the FP6.
Why is there no value in mobile linux on a modern phone?
Atleast for me the value for Nura (which im glad is why they dropped the old name) is that its mainline linux, not that the orginal vendor doesn't support it anymore.