@Linux__dup_35@linuxrocks.online
2025-12-07 19:22 UTC
@kevin@social.interlunium.nl
What are these "some AOSP-derived OS's" you refer to? And what is their functionality compared to SailfishOS in daily drive for regular people as alternative? What do you think? I suppose you can only research (via other people near you or so) as you don't own or use anything what is being discussed here.
As said - SailfishOS is already ~95% open source / the main part remaining is the Silica UI (graphical user interface).
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@kevin@social.interlunium.nl 2025-12-07 20:16
@Linux@linuxrocks.online Most people around me don't use mobile phones either, and definitely not smartphones, but I'm guessing LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/OS, etc. are examples of AOSP-derived OSes that are not proprietary by itself. Of course all of the bootloaders, firmware, device drivers, etc. of the phones it runs on are proprietary, but I doubt that's any different with the (Sony?) devices Sailfish OS runs on. And in addition to that, the GUI is also proprietary, which is not the case with AOSP.