This repository is intended to be a non-exhaustive source of information on devices and software that are part of a journey towards Free/Libre Open Source Software and Hardware.
- Terminology
- Why free/libre and open source is needed
- Priority free/libre and open projects
- Why GNU/Linux on mobile devices is needed
- Why Google is dangerous
- FOSS laptops
- FOSS mobile devices
- Libreboot
- Other
| term | expansion | comments |
|---|---|---|
| TFLOSSH | Towards Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Hardware | "Towards" implies incomplete. It implies that this is a journey. |
| FOSS | Free and open source software | Ideally, this implies all software of the machine being free and open source and verifiably so. So, this would include chipset microcode, operating systems, applications etc. |
| FOSH | Free and open source hardware | Ideally, this implies all hardware of the machine being free and open source and verifiably so. So, this would include all chip architectures and all other hardwares such as main system boards and communciations devices. |
- Philosophy of the GNU Project -- Richard Stallman
- Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
- Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can't audit it) -- Damien Zammit (2016-06-15)
- Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need a way to disable it - Erica Portnoy and Peter Eckersley (Electronic Frontier Foundation) (2017-05-08)
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies -- Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley (Bloomberg) (2018-10-04)
- Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment -- Daniele Lepido (2019-04-29)
- High Priority Free Software Projects -- Free Software Foundation
- The 2018-12-30 state of GNU/Linux on mobile devices and the threats of Android and iOS: Why we need GNU/Linux on mobile devices (now more than ever) -- Jan Sprinz (35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) Lightning Talks) (2018-12-30)
- I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything -- Kashmir Hill (2019-01-29)
- Degoogling LineageOS in 2019
- Warning: They feature no nipple.
- System76
- System76 Bonobo WS 17' (featuring GPU Nvidia 10-series)
- LineageOS devices comparison notebook
- Unofficial List and Spec Sheet of Officially Supported LineageOS devices
- Unlock the device and the bootloader.
- Install TWRP and LineageOS.
- Install F-Droid.
- Install Aurora Store.
- Install applications.
PureOS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. Phosh is the PureOS GTK-compliant default user interface for phone-like devices. It uses a fork of wlroots as a Wayland compositor.
- upcoming documentation
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upcoming documentation
This is a device capable of running UBports Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS with Anbox for Android applications.
This was the first commercially available phone to feature Ubuntu Touch.
Libreboot is a free and open source BIOS or UEFI replacement.
