Originally posted by GhostOfFunkS
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If you want the open source Sailfish without Sailfish UI then download Mer, i tried Mer/Nemo with glacier ux and maybe we will see it run on Xperia X in the future.
And yes Qt is far more tested for smartphones.
I wonder how Purism will handle all the licensing it will need to be able to sell the phone pre-installed with PureOS in the US.
I wonder if librem 5 even will be able to connect a carrier here in Europe.
A smartphone is a lot more complected then an laptop and a lot more IP that you need to license.
We would all like a project like this so succeed but a don't think it's possible to develop a fully functional smartphone that is all open software and hardware with so little resources, it may as well turn out to be an almost useless brick that sends messages over WiFi and only has basic functionality.
And we will be able to install other Linux distributions, i think that should require a lot of work or do they expect to upstream all power management and all other stuff needed or maybe the device won't handle advanced power management or EAS at all.
Embedded devices like phones has a lot of custom code and it can't all be upstreamed.
They should be looking at Mer since it's the project that has solutions for many problems they will face but instead i get the feeling that they aim at running almost stock debian.
I need to see the product before i pay anything.
This project has to much NIH so i think it may not end up being anything at all.
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