Is there like a single Linux based OS that runs at least on one phone and supports basic smartphone stuff like:
- Calling
- Camera
- GPS
- Mobile Data
- WiFi
All flavors of Linux I tried did fail at one point or the other. Without getting at least the basic stuff working on at least one phone all the other advantages are worthless.
Nura (previously postmarketOS) can achieve this on the Oneplus 6T afaik. My pinephone technically supports all those. It’s just slow as shit.
it unfortunately does not support split APN networks very well, and receiving calls is somewhat inconsistent when locked
Do you have some (recent) blog post or video to share where someone display their experience? I would be pretty interested in that.
There are some videos on youtube but they’re quite old. It could be daily driveable but you would need to be willing to accept some jank. There’s a video of someone using Ubuntu touch on one from like a month ago. https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)
The FLX1s does!
Can you buy this anywhere? On their page it is mentioned as out of stock.
They have an FLX1s+, which is a variation on it: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1splus/
I have the FLX1s, but I’ve not tried the FLX1s+ yet. I’ve ordered one, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
@sakphul @codeinabox Define ‘Linux based’…
Something that is not based on AOSP but runs a mainline Linux kernel version (or a patched version of one) and supports the above mentioned features.
I still don’t get why doesn’t Linux Foundation and someone else come together to fork AOSP to strip out Google stuff and make it a real Linux distro.
probably because android is just pure jank polished to a mirror finish
Android is kinda the only OS actually using SELinux and unix users for sandboxing user apps
palata wrote on Hacker News: … – We’ll probably want the security model, with the nice sandboxing and I would argue the verified boot.
Many of these commentators aren’t grasping the advantages to developing mobile Linux as an independent operating system that can’t be controlled by any single company. They aren’t seeing the advantages that mobile Linux offers over AOSP, nor are they accounting for the difficulties of modifying AOSP to respect its users, compared to developing mobile Linux.
Off the jump, not responding to the concerns of security implementations is a bit disingenuous and I stopped reading there. For Linux to seriously compete in the phone ecosystem, security needs to be there.
We’re just now getting there on desktop with things like Wayland, Flatpak, and some distros having tbe ability to enable measured boot via TPM (usually its a process that requires a lot of research even when its supported.)
Theres no doubt in my mind that Linux phones could be great, and a lot of the work done for desktop can be copied over to mobile. Until the day where Linux mobile security is at the very least good enough for the everyday person though (Proper sandboxing, permissions, encryption and verified boot) I dont see it being viable, as much as I would like it to be.
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Therr is no doubt in your mind that Linux couldn’t be great? I guess you meant it could?
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The way you’re talking sounds like younthink Linux is just starting with some basic security. Linux has pretty much been on the forefront security wise, I wouldn’t trust any other OS over it (BSD type, maybe)
- typo
- Can you tell me what exactly youre talking about that makes Linux more secure than say, an iPhone? than GrapheneOS?
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It’s hard enough getting some companies to develop Android apps (not to mention the Android watch OS has barely anything) as much as I’d like to see a Linux phone OS catch on, unless there is some kind of Proton-layer for Android thing I just don’t see any companies making apps for it.
Waydroid works fine on Linux phones which are powerful enough
I don’t make Android apps because the environment is a treadmill - constantly requiring app updates to run on the newer OSs. I have not (yet) experienced the same forced obsolescence in any of the Linux flavors - apps I wrote 20 years ago still compile and run without mods, just relink to the latest libraries and go.
Android is already routinely emulated on PCs for purposes of development. As it’s open source, it’s certainly easier to develop a compatibility layer for it than for Windows (if such a thing doesn’t already exist).
We used to say the same thing about Windows. Then smartphones and tablets caught on and we saw: actually, we can port apps to new operating systems and develop new ones for them.
ATL (Android Translation Layer) and Waydroid.
an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) phone already is a Linux phone
Until it has ssh access and a command line package manager ala Debian APT, RedHat YUM, Arch Pacman, Alpine APK… it’s not “Linux” enough for me.
No: PMS doesn’t count. Compared to ssh -> shell, ADB is a PITA. If ssh is too much attack surface for you, securely switch it off until you need it.
A Text-Based interface, such as Terminals, witch all their Keyboard shortcuts, seems like a nightmare on a pure touch interface like a phone.
That article feels all over the place.
Good thing it’s a blog, not an article
Yes, a little more time should have been spent structuring and formatting. Important message but hard to read and follow.
Building an app in python reliant on pyqt is simplicity itself, vibecoding or not. If you have a Linux phone you can run these simple boiler plate apps. For Android you need a build chain & everything is just more complicated, including testing. (as far as I understand it anyway)
Suddenly it occurred to me that perhaps my LineageOS phone needs some sort of a Linux runetime, Vm whatever to run my weather app…
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