• Shatur
    52·
    10 months ago

    I think when people say “Linux phone” they mean GNU/Linux.

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        No? PMOS isn’t the only thing people refer to by “Linux phone”, often its something like Ubuntu touch, which absolutely is GNU.

        • TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          10 months ago

          Fair but Ubuntu Touch is not mainline Linux. It’s a hack to get a GNU/systemd Userland working with an Android kernel (which arguably is also a huge feat)

        • TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          10 months ago

          Sure, but PMOS is by far the most complete and “daily-ready” mobile mainline Linux distro out there. In fact I’m pretty sure both Mobian and MoA use the PMOS kernels…

          • lemmeee@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            10 months ago

            I haven’t used postmarketOS, but I don’t see why it would be any better than Mobian or Manjaro (Manjaro might not be the most stable though). Maybe you are talking about Android phones, in which case you are probably right - other distros might not support those so well. postmarketOS and other distros don’t use mainline Linux, so I don’t know why you would call them that, though. For me this is the biggest flaw of GNU/Linux phones.

            I know that postmarketOS developers contribute a lot in different areas, but so do Mobian developers. I think the kernel we use was initially developed by Megi.

      • Shatur
        1·
        10 months ago

        Ah, you probably right, I think it’s more common.

        I personally run ArchLinux on my PinePhone.