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I was hoping that there would be a reasonably rock solid "feature phone" platform we could start building from, but it seems everybody wants to scale down the full linux desktop.

I just want a feature phone with a browser.

I would even be keen to see KiaOS running on it, but I don't think you can right now.

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If you want to, you can have that; just take postmarketOSs new stable release when it's out with your prefered mobile shell and put the bare minimum of apps you want/need on there and you'll be set.

As for KaiOS, I doubt we'll see that soon, as IIRC like FirefoxOS it's designed to run on Android kernels. With GloDroid being mostly dormant and incomplete, I doubt we can pull that off.

Thanks. I will try that!

Update: Hold on, I thought it's the shells that are the problem. They are trying to do too much at once and doing it badly as a result.

Linux isn't all that will run on these.

Genode is working on a port. I'd gladly run seL4 instead of Linux.

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