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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by ZenoArrow »

zb3 wrote: post #8

PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM and volunteers have to use hacks to unofficially implement basic Android 1.0 functionality years after a device was released? That's sad to see. This is just lame, drivers should be implemented by those who work on them.. We had Librem 5 which had real OS support that didn't have to rely on third-party volunteers, I wish they released something more modern..

> PostmarketOS can't partner with any OEM/ODM

Where did you get this idea from?

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by duckerduck »

NewJazz wrote: post #35
cure_42 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrible advice

Why? Nonprofits involve a specific governance structure that may not be optimal, especially for small operations.

That is very region specific, in the Netherlands it's quite easy to operate a non-profit

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by fsflover »

flaburgan wrote: post #7
nekusar wrote: post #2

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By "Linux phone", what are your expectations exactly? Because if you talk "only" about the userspace, I have been daily driving Ubuntu Touch since 2019 on a Fairphone 2 and then a Pixel 3a and it is working like a charm. But it is using halium so you still have an Android kernel. So if you also talk about the kernel then yeah Postmarket OS is the closest to this and quite good on Fairphone already, I think some peopl…

> Then if you talk about 100% free software then indeed, nothing with a working modem is available as far as I know

Librem 5 runs an FSF-endorsed operating system, i.e., it's 100% free software in the OS.

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by ianso »

This is awesome stuff. Fully mainstream Linux with a normal userland running on a modern handset with all features will unlock a tremendous amount of change once it's there.

Things like running a distributed database for a community on top of the devices they own, hopefully also running true mesh networking.

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by spaqin »

squigz wrote: post #46
iamkonstantin wrote: post #34

Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS

Genuinely curious, like what cool things?

Calling our friends, maybe? No idea; I've tried desktop Linux on phones years prior and besides maybe being a potential portable cyber security rig it was only a cool oddity.

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by ianso »

squigz wrote: post #46
iamkonstantin wrote: post #34

Awesome! There are so many cool things we could be doing with our phones if they weren't locked to a single OS

Genuinely curious, like what cool things?

Apologies for self-linking here, but it's not just cool things, in my opinion it could transform humanitarian aid work. I wrote a use-case/short-story about it here:

https://ianso.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-we-dont-have.html

Re: Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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Post by seba_dos1 »

flaburgan wrote: post #7
nekusar wrote: post #2

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By "Linux phone", what are your expectations exactly? Because if you talk "only" about the userspace, I have been daily driving Ubuntu Touch since 2019 on a Fairphone 2 and then a Pixel 3a and it is working like a charm. But it is using halium so you still have an Android kernel. So if you also talk about the kernel then yeah Postmarket OS is the closest to this and quite good on Fairphone already, I think some peopl…

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