Sailfish X Working On File-System Encryption, Btrfs, Dual SIM Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sailfish X Working On File-System Encryption, Btrfs, Dual SIM Support

Jolla has shared some of their plans for improving Sailfish X, their mobile operating system available for purchase to load on Sony Xperia devices. There are some interesting Sailfish X plans this year with this continuing to be one of Jolla's main focuses...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sailfish-X-2018-Plans

[marnux]

The dual sim support is already done, it just isn't integrated in the build yet. I have been running dual sim for 3 months already. The added encryption is what i'm looking forward to.

[Mavman]

Still not opensource?
Still not interested!

[coder111]

Better Android support is a must. As far as I remember, their emulator is still emulating v4.4 KitKat...

[darkbasic]

Still not opensource?
Still not interested!

The same.

[ypnos]

They always promised a truly open-source operating system, and in fact based it heavily on open-source technology. Truth is, their OS was never as free as Android, and it's pretty certain it will stay this way. Why should I spend money on a system that is less free and has less features at the same time?

[samdraz]

Better Android support is a must. As far as I remember, their emulator is still emulating v4.4 KitKat...

i explicitly turn off android support always, only use when i really need it

[rubdos]

Still not opensource?
Still not interested!

So, what do you run on your smartphone? AOSP is getting more closed source/non-free on a day-by-day basis. Most SailfishOS functionallity that's non-free, is in fact open source; i.e., those components are plain text files in /usr/share. In the meanwhile, Jolla does actually release *more* source.

It *is* the most viable, day-to-day usable smartphone operating system out there, which does not eat privacy for breakfast, and spits on your freedom.

[AsciiWolf]

Still no application sandboxing/permissions support? :-(

[DrYak]

finally , all our whining on together.jolla.com jas brought success (specially about the return of btrfs feature).