• [$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 18:00:07
    [$] Open source for phones: postmarketOS

    Date:
    Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:46:40 +0000

    Description:
    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.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1055391/


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