If they wanted a secure phone OS that has access to a wide variety of applications without strings tied to "big corporations", then they should have just forked Android.
It's not that simple. Librem 5 is first of all about open hardware: the idea is that every component of the phone can operate without closed-source proprietary binary blobs. It's more about trust than security. Achieving this is becoming increasingly difficult: for example, the most recent laptop that fully supports open firmwares is a Thinkpad from 2009. For phones it's even worse (basically impossible)
Librem admittedly succeeded only partially in this feat: the GSM module for example is still closed. But
Seems to be mostly german-language, and not focused on mainline kernel support.
>they are freaking BIG
Ya, part of the issue being the need a huge battery to even consider being an everyday main device. Maybe future revision and silicon will make a librem 4 possible.
For who? (Score:3, Informative)
Who is this for? Who is asking for this?
If they wanted a secure phone OS that has access to a wide variety of applications without strings tied to "big corporations", then they should have just forked Android.
Re: (Score:4, Interesting)
It's not that simple. Librem 5 is first of all about open hardware: the idea is that every component of the phone can operate without closed-source proprietary binary blobs. It's more about trust than security. Achieving this is becoming increasingly difficult: for example, the most recent laptop that fully supports open firmwares is a Thinkpad from 2009. For phones it's even worse (basically impossible)
Librem admittedly succeeded only partially in this feat: the GSM module for example is still closed. But
Re:For who? (Score:2)
>Shiftphone
Seems to be mostly german-language, and not focused on mainline kernel support.
>they are freaking BIG
Ya, part of the issue being the need a huge battery to even consider being an everyday main device. Maybe future revision and silicon will make a librem 4 possible.