Dear Jason,
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jason Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > So I've been building custom LFS systems for personal use regularly for > several > years now (every six months since 6.6), and I would never consider going > back > to something like Ubuntu or *gasp* Windows. In my early days of computer > use, I > was always trying to remove bloat and stop services in Windows. When I > realized > that was an effort in futility and I would never really achieve a very > secure > system no matter what I did, I moved to Linux and ended up settling on > installing command-line Ubuntu systems. When my brother told me about LFS, > I > couldn't wait to build my first system, and I've been hooked ever since. > You > just can't beat the control you have over everything, so useability and > security are as good as you make it. > > Now I'm in the market for a smartphone, and when I read the reviews about > things like google bloatware and how slow Android phones can be, I feel > like > I'm back to square one. My dream is to buy a top-of-the-line smartphone and > build a custom OS for it with full disk encryption using dm-crypt, Orbot > browser, and some type of end-to-end encrypted voice client. It would be a > totally lean system with no processes running that I didn't need. > > The trouble is, I don't have a whole lot of money to spare, so if I brick a > device, I'm screwed. Also, I don't really have the technical ability nor > the > time to figure out how to do all this by myself. > > So I was wondering if anyone was aware of a project out there that's > similar to > LFS but for Android phones where I could achieve what I'm looking to do. It > would be really helpful if this project had recommended devices that were > proven to work. I just don't have a lot of room for experimentation or > trial > and error. > > I understand that this market is relatively new, so maybe I should wait a > few > years to see where it goes and continue using my 5 year old flip phone. > > Any guidance here would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jason Daly > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > You need to just look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanogenmod It will open the doors for you just like LFS -- With Best Regards* TSS Ravi Kumar *
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