On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:46:59PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Jolla do a phone which is Linux based. No idea if this would suit your
> > needs but may be worth a look. It's GUI is good and it uses Wayland.
> > Not sure how open it is!
>
> I second Jolla.
> FWIW, I consider buying one my
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 09:42:58PM +0100, john wrote:
> behrouz khosravi wrote:
>
> > > If you build/install Android on a device, then it only contains what
> > > you put there, and you can just as easily remove it. If you let
> > > somebody else build/install android on a device and not give y
2015-06-29 14:14 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi :
>
> I know what you mean. This is all more or less true, but what can we do in
> this situation?
> I will try to move toward whatever promotes openness, and please do not tell
> me that ubuntu
> is not more open that android. In android I cant even have
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Linux is a desktop OS. I hope it remains that way.
Uh, Linux is a kernel, and even GNU is really a collection of
shell-oriented tools, which can be run from Android just fine.
So Android IS Linux, at least as much as Gentoo is, or your
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:18PM -0500, Dale wrote
> What version of Firefox are you using? I've seen some changes made
> to Firefox but nothing that drastic. I'm just curious if maybe I'm
> still running a older not affected version.
>
> My reason for asking. I'm volunteer on staff at a soc
I don't have time to catch up on the whole thread yet, but
https://neo900.org/ should be interesting. The older n900 phone is
quite open as well. Both [will] run an operating system called Maemo.
The neo900 solves some of the issues in current phones like the modem
sharing memory space with the ma
On 30 June 2015 1:44:24 AM AEST, behrouz khosravi wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS
>-
>> or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
>> bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
>>
>
>No, actually my problem is that wh
Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:33:08PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote
>
>> I love to get ride of android altogether!
>> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my
>> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory.
>> This is what
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:33:08PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote
> I love to get ride of android altogether!
> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my
> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory.
> This is what I consider as the linux o
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:44:23 +0430
behrouz khosravi wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you build/install Android on a device, then it only contains what
> > you put there, and you can just as easily remove it. If you let
> > somebody else build/install android on a device and not give you
> > root access, th
>
>
> If you build/install Android on a device, then it only contains what
> you put there, and you can just as easily remove it. If you let
> somebody else build/install android on a device and not give you root
> access, then it is painful.
>
> If you build/install Gentoo on a device, then it on
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, behrouz khosravi
wrote:
>> It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS -
>> or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
>> bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
>
> No, actually my problem is that why an op
* behrouz khosravi [150629 11:45]:
> >
> > It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS -
> > or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
> > bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
> >
>
> No, actually my problem is that why an operating sys
>
> It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS -
> or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
> bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
>
No, actually my problem is that why an operating system
can have decision on what types of apps can I
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:03 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote:
>
> I love to get ride of android altogether!
> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my
> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory.
> This is what I consider as the linux or more
On 29/06/15 21:03, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Android
> as part of GSoC. I've yet to try it myself but you might find that
> useful. I doubt it runs x11, but your typical x11 application isn't
> really going to work well
>
> I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Android
> as part of GSoC. I've yet to try it myself but you might find that
> useful. I doubt it runs x11, but your typical x11 application isn't
> really going to work well on a smartphone anyway unless you get a
> bluetooth mous
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:54 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> I am eagerly waiting for seeing the traditional linux ecosystem on phones
> and tablet.
> I hate Android and I think it is not what we deserve to have on our
> hardware.
I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Androi
Hello everyone.
I am eagerly waiting for seeing the traditional linux ecosystem on phones
and tablet.
I hate Android and I think it is not what we deserve to have on our
hardware.
So is anyone using ubuntu on phones? (I am not a fan of ubuntu but I thinks
at this moment it is closest thing to what
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