One of my harder earned life lessons is it’s structurally impossible to run a company that develops and sells a product based on this kind of soft values and buying devices from them is almost always a recipe for disappointment. It doesn’t even have to be the fault of the company (though it often is)
I’m currently using a PinePhone Pro as my daily driver and if you want something to play around with that’s definitely an option (though the PinePhone is probably a little more stable and less tinkery).
If you care less about it being a “free” phone built specifically for Linux and just want something that works, then rooting some older phone with good support will probably provide a better experience.
I don’t see anyone addressing what should be the main concern: purism as a long history of internal toxicity and screws up. There were problem and their CTO left a long time ago, since then everything went downhill. Their communication is also one of the worse I’ve seen. They don’t mind lying, it feels borderline scam sometimes.
Whatever the price and the alleged goal I would not get behind a shady organization.
Nothing is perfect but Purism has been way passed the limits for me a long time ago.
noob alerti heard a while back that the linux kernel was getting “Rusty.” why change to Rust when you have C, and does this not create backward compatibility issue?
and also, does Linus Torvalds always release the kernel updates himself? and does this mean that we are doomed if he dies (like the shit that went down the Tolkien died, with the lame Lord of the Rings crap)
I seem to remember rust support was for writing drivers. Rust is the new language to get rid of buffer overflows and memory issues the programmer in C had to manage manually, so much more secure. And Linus just manages the kernel and doesn’t contribute code, so it should continue just fine without him. And it’s open source, so it can be forked if people don’t like its direction at any time. And there are alternative kernels you can install now that have real time functionality, better timing… if you have a need.
The Rust for Linux project was announced in 2020 in the Linux kernel mailing list with goals of leveraging Rust’s memory safety to reduce bugs when writing kernel drivers.[3]
in case of any forensics your drive will be copied first and master will be not touched, any decryption attempts will be executed on copies - so kill switch is effectively useless.
I think the appeal was supposed to be all drivers are open source. where as even with custom roms, you still have proprietary firmware blobs that must be updated by the manufacturer to prevent any exploits
Phones that run mainline Linux are seldom. The only ones that come to my mind are PinePhone Pro (outdated hardware, 400 bucks) and Librem 5 (also outdated hardware, incredibly expensive 1300$ !). If you are serious get the PinePhone Pro. But expect pitfalls because you can't just run Android apps.
Nextcloud is still the best option for self hosted cloud services.
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