Sigmatank@midwest.social to AsklemmyEnglish · 1 year agoWhats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?message-squaremessage-square357fedilinkarrow-up1431arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1424arrow-down1message-squareWhats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?Sigmatank@midwest.social to AsklemmyEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square357fedilinkfile-text
Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.
minus-squaremateomaui@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agouhhhh… I think? Android is built from linux, with a modified linux kernel, so linux can still be open source even when Android mostly isn’t.
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAndroid is also open source. Here’s the source: https://github.com/aosp-mirror
minus-squaremateomaui@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoGhoelian has already responded to you with what I essentially meant: It would be like saying that if 99% of Linux users used RedHat. AOSP is open source sure, but realistically basically everyone is using a closed source version that the OEM has messed with.
minus-squarepuppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoSame with Linux. I don’t know of anyone who runs Linux from Scratch. Every Linux distro adds non-open code, be it audio drivers or codecs and the like.
uhhhh… I think? Android is built from linux, with a modified linux kernel, so linux can still be open source even when Android mostly isn’t.
Android is also open source. Here’s the source: https://github.com/aosp-mirror
Ghoelian has already responded to you with what I essentially meant:
Same with Linux. I don’t know of anyone who runs Linux from Scratch. Every Linux distro adds non-open code, be it audio drivers or codecs and the like.