Comment by supermatt

6 months ago

TLDR or something? They aren't making an OS.

The project is about opening up the closed blobs that mobile chipsets use:

"This project's goal is not another Android distribution, but a long-term project to better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by virtually all SoCs made today."

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fsflover  6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589873

  • supermatt  6 months ago

    Thats clearly not what the OP is suggesting as per "Why do we have to have /e/OS instead of a better supported LineageOS, because /e/ is a 1:1 copy anyways?". Both cases are android. /e/OS is not librephone.

    There's little point in "partnering" with postmarketOS, because the project is literally about clean room reversing the proprietary blobs found in android devices: https://librephone.fsf.org/site/ - there are no commercial phones using postmarketOS with blobs to reverse engineer.