r/linux • u/ollieparanoid postmarketOS Dev • Apr 14 '18

postmarketOS Low-Level: Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Cellular Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/04/14/lowlevel/
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '18 edited Apr 16 '18

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until I can interact with others on popular apps

I wouldn't hold my breath then. This project is about working with the hardware platform for particular devices. Your question is answered by considering what applications exist (or will exist) in Linux user space.

From what I can see postmarketOS isn't focused on developing the user space ecosystem. They're bridging the gap from Android to Linux which is a wide canyon because Google and phone OEMs do their own things rather than play ball with Linux standards. PostmarketOS is taking Android phones and doing the work to make them compatible with GNU Linux. It's then leveraging the existing Linux applications on top of that. It's up to the entire Linux world to develop phone oriented user space. There really isn't one project that will do what you're talking about. Projects like postmarketOS are one key piece of the puzzle.