postmarketOS v22.06 Release: The One Where We Started Using Release Titles
postmarketos.org/blog/2022/06/12/v22.06-release/Posted Jun 12, 2022, 7:29 PM UTC
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Is this a Friends reference?
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It is
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Not a lot of supported phones, but the amount there is admirable. I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and LG V20, so I kinda screwed up, but I hope some more get ported eventually. Thinking about trying the Pinephone Pro when it gets battery issues more flushed out
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That's the biggest problem for me. I won't consider Linux for smartphones to be "ready" until it reaches the point where if you have a phone, chances are it can run Linux no problem. Desktop Linux has reached that point. It remains to be seen whether smartphone Linux will be able to reach it as well.
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Probably not, since phone makers are actively working against that goal. Linux didn't have that problem when trying to work on IBM compatible PCs.
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It'll never be like that, modern android smartphones have locked down bootloaders which don't allow for another os. You'll have to buy a phone that supports linux, Like Pine phone or the multitude of linux phone makers out there. Smartphones are not an open platform like a desktop.
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bootloader can be unlocked on the majority of the phones
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Yes, but you're still pretty much only allowed to reflash Android due to Knox.
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*minority of phones
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Then sadly Linux for smartphones will never be ready for you. As others said the phone manufacturers are actively working against our goal, for one by not pre-unlocking the bootloader.
Luckily for most people it will be ready when they can get a device that works as expected from a smartphone with a regular Linux distribution, and that point we're actively getting closer too. Some people are already daily driving their devices in fact.
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Does postmarketOS support USB wifi adapters?
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i think it depends on device you are using
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That would make sense, but I can't seem to find any information about it on their wiki.
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wiki -> devices -> usb otg
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It depends. For the devices that are in stable there's usb-c role changing, otg support or an usb-a port at least. The devices in testing might be running a kernel that does not have those features functional.
Then for that specific device it depends if the kernel has the drivers enabled for the wifi adapter you're using. For things like the PinePhone kernel we try to have relatively wide hardware support but things might still be missing (but can be added, just create an issue or merge request).
For other devices it might be an ancient android kernel that does not even support the wifi adapter yet or there's a large chance that the module for the wifi adapter is not enabled because it was not enabled in the original kernel config for that device that was made by the manufacturer.
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No NFC support on Pine phone translates to no Yubikey support. Thats one down from me.
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The pinephone. And I think librem 5 as well
One of the very first things in the linked article is the list of supported devices.
The list is just that, a list. It includes no information comparing the devices to one another via the metric of how well postmarketOS supports them.
It's a common annoyance with open-source OSes and firmwares who support multiple devices. The creators are people who owned one of the devices already and therefore think of their project only in terms of "if you have one of these things, you know the OEM software makes it nigh-unusable, but my project will unfsck them". They do not think of their project in terms of "if you're in the market for this type of thing, my project will make the OEM software not-a-dealbreaker" and therefore give no information comparing the different devices' guts.
We do provide information on what device is supported and how well (as in what will work and will not), just not on release blog posts. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices has a way more detailed list so I would recommend checking that out.
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
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Pine64 devices, Librem phone, SDM845 devices, BQ Aquaris X5.
There's way more that work but these are actively supported and have decent specs.
Full list: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices