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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.

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  • Nemomobile
  • Droidian
  • Mobile NixOS
  • ExpidusOS
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  • Tizen
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  • Fairphone 5
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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure FLX1 counts as a full 100% Linux phone. It uses the android driver stack in order to then boot to Linux. But I guess this might get them stuck with old insecure drivers? Not sure this is the best long term approach.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was basically Debian with Waydroid preinstalled.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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No. the FLX1 uses a project called Hallium, which as I understand it, basically runs an Android container and the original Android kernel to interface with the hardware

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Weird. I checked the website & forum again, and what I can see still says it's a Debian fork that uses Waydroid. Where did you read that it uses Hallium? Not that it's important, but I've been planning to get one, so I want to be sure I know what I'm getting.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got it from https://blog.luigi311.com/furilabs-flx1/. Furi labs specifically links to this article on their website, so I would assume it's factually correct.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see where it says the phone is a Halium-based device, but then under Android support, it says they use their own Waydroid fork. So, I guess those aren't mutually exclusive. Good to know, thanks.

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, Waydroid is just an application and will run on normal amd64 and arm64 linux devices just fine. Having it setup from the factory is just a nice quality of life feature.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not really clear on what you were disagreeing with, then.