[ocdtrekkie]

Indeed. I'm tired of each new attempt to fix Android and make it usable and safe. Apps written for Android are written to work with Google's expectations and assume the presence of Google's servers and proprietary APIs, and that's getting worse, not better.

Librem is going the right way, and there are a handful of other companies working along the same path. Necunos is another I heard of as well: https://necunos.com/community/

[ForHackernews]

Also https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/26/intro/ - "Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones" using mainline Linux kernels.

[ocdtrekkie]

Yeah, and pmOS adds an interesting angle that they're adding legacy Android hardware to these companies' work on their own hardware, all running real Linux.

Note that Necunos' phone could actually be bought with pmOS preloaded as well, so you can really start to see how a few of these different projects are starting to work together and build on each other.

Hopefully we can have a truly FOSS mobile ecosystem in the next couple of years.

[juliangoldsmith]

pmOS should support the Librem 5 when it comes out, as well. We have several contributors working on them.