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600 days of postmarketOS

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of January 2019 05:41:26 PM Filed under
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postmarketOS is aiming for a ten year life-cycle for smartphones, see the all new front page for a short introduction if you are new around here. Today we'll cover what happened during the second half of 2018. Many have been wondering where we've been and why it took us so long to write a real update post. Is the project dead already? Weren't phone calls almost working? What happened?
Development has been going on continuously, so we are not dead. Maybe a little undead though, like some of the old and forgotten phones we are trying to revive, because we have not really gotten any closer to the goal of getting telephony working or turning a phone into a daily driver. The Nexus 5, while booting mainline with accelerated graphics and connecting to the cellular modem all with a free software userspace, still does not have working audio. That is one example, other devices have different problems. However, we have not been sitting idle and doing nothing these past few months!

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 17th of January 2019 06:28:23 AM.
  • PostmarketOS brings old Androids back to life with Linux

    Before you get too excited about bringing your old smartphone back to life like Frankenstein’s Monster, know that this isn’t for everyone. In fact postmarketOS isn’t built to be used by MOST people. Instead it’s made for hackers, developers, and for those that wish to spend inordinate amounts of time fussing with software code to get their long-since-useful smartphone to a state in which it can do a thing or two.

    At some point in the distant future, the creators of postmarketOS hope to develop “a sustainable, privacy and security focused free software mobile OS that is modeled after traditional Linux distributions.” To this end, they’ve got “over 100 booting devices” in a list with instructions how to load. This does not mean that every version WORKS right this minute.

    Instead, the list is full of devices on which just a few tiny parts of the phone work. But for those that are super hardcore about loading new and interesting software to their old devices, this might well be enough. Devices from the very well known to the very, very rare are on this list – Fairphone 1 and 2, the Google Glass Explorer Edition, and the original HTC Desire are all here.

PostmarketOS progress update: Boots on 112 devices

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 18th of January 2019 12:47:09 AM.
  • PostmarketOS progress update: Boots on 112 devices, makes phone calls on none

    Buy an iPhone and you might get some sort of official support for software updates for up to 5 years. Get a Google Pixel and you get 3 years of support. Purchase almost any other phone and you’ll be lucky to get more than a year or two of updates.

    PostmarketOS is an ambitious effort to let you use your phone for longer. In 2017 the developers of this Linux-based, open source operating system set a goal of creating software that would give smartphones a 10-year lifecycle.

    It’s not there yet. But the developers did provide a progress update this week, detailing where they’re at after 600 days of postmarketOS.

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