The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP
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The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 46 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #13 of 25, reached on Nov 2, 20:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 3, 14:21 UTC.
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I've thought about making the jump to Linux phone for some time now, but the main challenge remains (drumroll) calls. If you look at postmarketOS, it seems that call / sms support is very spotty. After being in an emergency situation, the phone *must* be able to do an emergency call. Is there a phone which can do…
Mainline... I think no, VoLTE support on mainline Linux still isn't there to my knowledge. The libhybris-based distros/phones on the other hand do tend to have pretty good calling support; so far this year I've used both an FLX1s running FuriOS and a Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch as daily drivers. (Currently using…
This article seems to mostly just handwave the development costs, security, ecosystem angle with "don't worry, it's 80% of the way there and developers are cheap". Yet we all know how much the last 20% costs... I suspect a hostile fork of AOSP if Google did close it would happen. Even if it was i.e. just Graphene,…
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