• [$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Sun Feb 1 06:40:09 2026
    Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way
    since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly increased its freedom-unfriendliness and
    has become something of a privacy nightmare. In a talk entitled "We need
    an open-source phone OS" at Open
    Source Summit Japan 2025, Luca Weiss described the smartphone landscape
    and gave an overview of postmarketOS as an alternative Linux
    operating system for mobile handsets.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1055391/
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