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Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone (linuxiac.com)

submitted 5 days ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

My fear with a Linux phone is debugging and troubleshooting. Reading logs and editing text files with a phone keyboard does NOT seem fun.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

But also, just because some activities are annoying on the phone does not mean you should be locked out from them.

[-] Pika@rekabu.ru 1 points 4 days ago

Should have something like ADB to connect it to PC and debug from there.

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

If I am not home that seems like a major barrier because I would need a laptop with ADB and a place to work. Having a USB C keyboard would help some.

[-] Pika@rekabu.ru 1 points 4 days ago

True, though I don't expect for many people to do complicated debugs on the go.

FSF audience is special, though :D

[-] Brahvim@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 4 days ago

Hmmm. How about an app for editing configs specifically?

Like, an entire protocol/standard thing for specifying the exact values accepted, too.

No more text-only configs, right?! And apps made specifically to give you a GUI to configure a specific service can still exist on top of this!

That would be a good idea to start this off... right?

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Make the settings app extremely modular? Have it be able to parse most config file standards and even provide guidelines for common system config files?