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Jolla Sailfish pitches a "European phone" for users wary of Google and Apple (www.techspot.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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[–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • it uses a downstream Android kernel
  • it does not use a mainline kernel
  • the Android kernel creates dependencies and makes it difficult to keep up to date for more than a couple years
  • their AppSuport is literally Android in a container with some proprietary parts
  • their apps are scarce as they need to be built for the OS (no Flatpak or any other support for the existing mobile Linux software)
  • the UI and some other components are proprietary

I believe those points make clear why I see more of a future in projects like Mobian, postmarketOS, Fedora Pocketblue.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sure about the Android kernel?
    I was pretty convinced they use a Linux kernel and only have an Android app compatibility layer

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, there's no mainline kernel support. They just use the downstream kernel from the phone vendor. This also means they cannot provide security updates for longer than the device's vendor, which in Sony's case isn't even much support at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I was thinking about their own phones, not Sailfish for other vendors

    For example their community phone or their new Jolla phone

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