Free mobile and whatever OS

Posted Jan 2, 2020 11:29 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Free mobile and whatever OS by smurf
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

Do you mean "fairphone 3"? If so (or even if not), what's your point?

There are plenty of phones with unlockable bootloaders and available source. I remember the 1990s and I guess it was a feasible prediction that pocket computers in 2020 would be much more powerful than heavy-duty workstations in those days. What nobody could have predicted was that those pocket computers would almost all be running Linux.

Free mobile and whatever OS

Posted Jan 2, 2020 14:05 UTC (Thu) by mads (subscriber, #55377) [Link]

My Fairphone 3's bootloader is unlocked too (as per their own instructions), but you're right about missing sources.. for now. They did good with FP2, hope FP3 follows suit.