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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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which linux phone is the most promising? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It's getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I'm following postmarket but I'm not sure if they are the most promising. What's your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don't want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can't Linux phones run android apps pretty seamlessly via waydroid anyway though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Increasingly lots of stuff won't work without all of the Google services. Banking apps won't run on root devices or anything odd they detect.

Even without that, I can say how seamless it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Banking apps won't run on root devices or anything odd they detect.

Banking apps will run in Android emulation layers on GNU/Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's good, though I still think it's a problem they exist. I mean a lot of apps are a webpage wrapped in an app anyway, so why not just a webpage and skip the platform dependence.