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Comment by fsflover

4 months ago

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

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.

  • > there are no commercial phones using postmarketOS with blobs to reverse engineer

    This is false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589096

    • > This is false

      You can install postmarketOS on it (just as you can install lineageOS, etc on a Samsung galaxy, etc), but it ships with PureOS. "The Librem 5 is a phone built on PureOS" - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

      The project is to reverse engineer proprietary blobs - so it makes sense to go where those blobs are and reverse to match the functionality that is exposed commercially instead of guessing at a subset for base implementation on a non-official OS?

      > See also my other comment

      It seems you are just as confused about this project as the OP, which is ironic given your name.

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