On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 03:52:56PM +0100, furey2310 wrote: > Hi, > > All the talk regarding linux mobile o/s and one after the other... > discontinued.
Purism are going from strength to strength, and for a few years now: https://puri.sm/ Check out: https://puri.sm/shop/librem5 Phone OS based on Debian. In the works. All types of contributors welcome. As the software stack gets closer and closer to being nailed, the "install on 'walled garden' hardware" options will also expand, so istm that Purism may well begin with the Librem5, where Canonical left off. Have a few OpenMoko's in a box still - the original open phone, and the first crowd-sourced open hardware before "crowd sourced" was a term. Makes me nostalgic for those folks who are hard core freedom lovers/ defenders (as are Purism folks). We're getting there… Enjoy, > why is there not a compiled set of instructions (installation code itself) to > be saved on a usb (only installs on a mobile device) as in the apt get > repository where you can right click, save as and paste it to an android > system/root file, if you can get in that far (i can just about clear hidden > system files. > upon next reboot pushing both buttons in or whatever takes you to root on your > mobile/cell phone, it will then show the code heading as one of the root > maintenance tools to initiate installation sequence including the dialler if > it isn't left anyway. > firewall and security tools already configured and checked regularly, > reconfigured where applicable. > > I know it's not supposed to be easy (even for a novice like me) but as with > android, security should be pre set, resettable back to default when needed. > > Install via a set code rather than installation media. Oh yes, it is supposed to be easy, once the hackers and Debianistas make it easy - that can just take a little time. The meta history is that Linux achieved world domination, but not on the desktop. KDE began as only partially free (many years ago now), and so Gnome was started. KDE core libs ended up being freed (to GPL) then extra-freed (to LGPL), but by then Canonical and Red Hat had 'standardized' on Gnome. KDE then did its "rewrite the world" thing, causing 2+ years stagnation from the end user's perspective. Gnome folks laughed condescendingly and we users smugly enjoyed our Gnome 2 "Windows 95" style desktops, secure in our superiority to mere "peasants" who used anything less (i.e. anything else). Then the iPhone happened, instantly killing Nokia (well, it took about 3 weeks, and it took Nokia 3 years to realise it really had missed the boat, had all but died, and therefore the best option was to --really-- kill it off by selling the company to Microsoft, which they did, and it promptly was). Sope! SO‼ So, so, so so so, so so!‼¡! Free software hackers the world over collectively gasped in shock, began to continually pine wistfully in unapologetic lust for Apple's walled garden hardware and walled garden app store, endlessly longing for Angry Birds running on Linux, and promptly threw the baby out with the bathwater, by which I mean that KDE re-wrote the world, -again-, and Gnome promptly went and did the same thing. All the gloaters (your incredibly humble author included) were literally stupified in instant shell shock, as no desktop existed any more, merely lame attempts to create endless alternatives to iOS, which, due to our ethos of always, BUT ALWAYS, reinvent the wheel, no matter when else you do, meant that every sane end user on the planet had to use XFCE for the desktop. And then the last decade disappeared with half breed cross dressers like "Gnome 3 point OH FIRETRUCK ME SIDEWAYS and bury the 0x dead beef already, mofo!". Hard days I tell ya, hard fricking days! Many a crate of whisky disappeared into the annals of cellular liver degeneration. So then the desktop finally unified. I kid, I kid, of course then we had a literal zillion desktop splinters - two or more KDE "new" core library based variants for desktops and for mobile phones. Then the libs were rewritten A-FIRETRUCKING-GAIN for tablets. And of course Gnome did the exact same thing. And those who would not give up the desktop so easily began or resurrected more projects again, from Cinnamon to Mate, Gnome plugins to Plasma, Matchbox to LXQt. And now we're here. Good luck ;)
