PostmarketOS's new roadmap to fight e-waste
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I view this as a complete failure of the project: to bring back old phones to an usable state.
I've always objected that postmarketOS, while great, fails at being real-world usable.
AFAIK, there currently is not a single phone which is 100% supported, and not a single phone that can make calls, send/receive texts, and browse the internet.
You know, the things that you would use a phone for.
One of their flagship phones, the google nexus 5, only partially works and btw, last time I followed their installation instructions, it didn't boot.
I still admire their accomplishments, but they failed to deliver on the original core idea.
I really hope that they manage to deliver... In the meantime, if you want to make calls, you're stuck to regular phones.
Regarding the original vision there are not yet there, sure, but they are relentlessly pushing the platforms where Linux can run.
Once the 2 Linux native smartphones are 100% working, it will be easier to add more and more devices.
On the other hand, I've successfully flashed an old Nexus7 tablet which now can be used as a server rather than as a dead brick.
Yep, but they had to buy a new phone to do that. pmOS mission was to let users keep using their old one. So e-waste keeps adding up.
> Regarding the original vision there are not yet there, sure, but they are relentlessly pushing the platforms where Linux can run.
Yes but there is no single platform that can make/receive calls. That's what phones are for. Text messages? nope. Wi-fi? sometimes, on some devices.
> Once the 2 Linux native smartphones are 100% working, it will be easier to add more and more devices.
Why would that happen? please elaborate on that.
> On the other hand, I've successfully flashed an old Nexus7 tablet which now can be used as a server rather than as a dead brick.
I used to run ubuntu on the nexus 7 in 2013, without much fuss. Booting Linux is not the problem. The problem is supporting the basic use cases. Which for a phone is, again, phone calls and text messages.
Because then it will just be a matter of drivers. Currently, as you say, they need to polish other things like camera handling, audio etc... But once this work is done, it's done. Then porting to new devices should be just a matter of drivers.
> I used to run ubuntu on the nexus 7 in 2013
Today they are bringing an usable touch interface which was not the case.