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You can now live-boot postmarketOS on Android phones

To spread awareness of the Linux ecosystem, the very first "Live CDs" played a crucial role: by taking away most of the fear of overwriting their hard drives, they allowed more people to test and effectively use any spin of the Operating System, and by keeping the filesystem in RAM,

Linux Smartphone

The best Linux phones you can buy right now

⚠️ Hi Hacker News! The devices linked in this article are not yet suitable for daily use. If you are not familiar with terminals, kernel panics, disappointing battery life, or a lack of mobile-friendly applications in general, do not take one of these devices as anything like your "daily driver" phone.

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postmarketOS + mainline for the OnePlus 5/5T!

The OnePlus 5 is a popular high-end phone from 2017, featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC and Adreno 540. It has a 1080p display and up to 8GB of RAM. Mainline support for the device has been around for a while, since early 2020 in fact. Unfortunately, the Snapdragon 835

Linux Tablets

Some Kobo e-readers can now run Linux, becoming inexpensive e-ink tablets

Attempts to run Linux distributions on e-readers like the Amazon Kindle and Rakuten Kobo series date to many years ago, when hackers initially discovered the surprising flexibility of these devices, which are usually based on mostly open hardware and lack the advanced bootloader locks found in most phones. However, proprietary

postmarketOS

postmarketOS in 2021: over 300 devices, growing technical basis and extensive "mainline" support

About one month after targeting smartwatches and weeks after its fourth birthday, postmarketOS has met another crucial milestone for its vision of an entirely sustainable, 10+ year lifecycle for portable devices: the distribution can now boot, to varying degrees of compatibility, on over 300 machines. Deja-vu? It was exactly one

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postmarketOS is finally coming to wearables

Almost four years after its first release, postmarketOS has just started targeting the valuable niche of smartwatches. As the upper end of these devices tends to offer near-identical hardware configurations to ARM phones, many models come either with Google's own Wear OS, or with proprietary themed and minified Android or

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Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2021

One of the main issues with modern smartphones is the extremely short lifespan of this category of devices, which makes even high-end ones painfully slow within years. In fact, studies have shown that it takes the average European, American or Asian user less than two years to dump their old

postmarketOS

postmarketOS gets Anbox integration, will run native Android apps

Supporting Android apps to some degree has always been one of the priorities of the postmarketOS project, with Anbox support being one of the oldest issues in the project's bug tracker. The news is, this issue has been very recently marked as solved after two years of work, as Anbox

Linux Smartphone

Video shows PinePhone prototype detailed assembly and boot to Plasma Mobile

Just some days after Purism released its first Librem 5 walk-through video, with the final device running its "GNOME" Phosh shell with impressive smoothness, postmarketOS developer Martijn Braam uploaded a video of himself assemblying by hand the first (finished) PinePhone prototype from a bag of parts. The show of impressive

PineTab

$79 PineTab Linux tablet supports SATA and LTE expansions, boots postmarketOS

While PINE64 has often been in the news in the last months for their PinePhone, the $150 Linux smartphone (and low-cost Purism Librem 5 alternative), the same can't be said about its big brother, the PineTab. At the modest price of $79, the PineTab offers a full Linux experience (likely

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postmarketOS Linux makes 🎂️ 2 years 🎂️: bringing over one hundred smartphones back to life

It's a fact: smartphones tend to have a dramatically short lifespan, no matter the price range. While features remain more or less the same, even high-end smartphones tend to become slow within two or three years, forcing their users to an upgrade. And while it's widely known, even among non-technical

Linux Smartphone

First prototype for PINE64 "PinePhone" Linux smartphone sports thin bezels and modern design

After being announced several months ago, Pine64's inexpensive "PinePhone" Linux smartphone looks like a cheaper, entry-level alternative to the relatively popular Librem5 Linux smartphone by Purism, which promises total privacy and a full mobile Linux experience. In fact, most of the work on Linux for smartphones in the last months