I am more looking forward to the Librem 5 phone itself than to Pure OS. Making a good mobile phone OS is harder then most people think and it will probably take Purism and their community at least a year or two to make it work well. I am guessing I will be switching to Ubuntu Touch soon after I get my Librem 5. But I will be watching the progress and hope they do well. For now, my vote is definitely Ubuntu Touch.
They do have a point, though. Itâs kind of important that people understand that while Sailfish OS uses some free components at its core, most of what makes the OS unique is proprietary and distributed under not very friendly licenses. If you want a fully free and open-source phone, Sailfish OS is not the solution you are looking for. Iâm a member of the Ubuntu Touch team, so i am obviously biased, but I can tell you that the only proprietary components in Ubuntu Touch are the drivers required to run on some devices.
I donât mind sailfish or proprietary software. But i do mind when people say something is FLOSS when itâs not. Its kinda insulting when you work so hard on opensource and contribute a lot of free time to make FLOSS an alternative (not only mobile, but desktop too), then someone comes along and say that something is FLOSS when its not!
For that to happen FP3 would have to serve as a FLOSS flagship with all FLOSS operating systems focusing on it. This would need a lot of communication between Fairphone and the UBPorts team (and maybe Purism for PureOS). Android could come from Fairphone directly just as it is now. Actually FP3 seems to be developed in private, which is a bit sad.
FP3 could be similar to Librem 5 - with a bit of fairness.
I hoped for the FP2 to run SailfishOS at some time out of the box. The poll back than showed the interest. I even anticipated on that one as there where some rumors about it.
After a while there was a community port but I needed a full image with the licensed parts also(AD and Exchange). When the hope flew I bought a Sony eventually.
I hope this time they will bring out a full SailfishOS device, I will then definitely buy one!
@StephanK Since Fairphone is a player in the market they cannot risk to openly develop a next Fairphone. What would have happened if a competitor would have copied the modular design of FP2? FP2 would not have been the first modular phone in the market.
@BonoNL I remember that Jolla and Fairphone were talking about a cooperation, but they couldnât reach an agreement.
After the first 100 votes or so the top 3 were LOS, FP(O)OS and Sailfish.
/e/ and Ubuntu both have been pushed by their communities like Sailfish was in the first poll after which it was ported to the FP2.
I donât mind the poll being a bit unrepresentative if it leads to a similar collaboration and cross-promotion with other communities again.
Interesting. From reading back in the days I seem to remember webOS did a lot of things right, but like many âactually better than more well-known competitionâ solutions in IT, it didnât catch on, even with a big player like HP at the helm in the end.
LG use it for their TVs (if thatâs still the case).
LuneOS Wiki and forum donât look too lively currently.
So ⌠what would LuneOS do better than the âcompetitionâ on a smartphone today?
Iâm very much an end-user, not a developer but Iâve used webOS on my Palm Preâs and the user interface is by far the best, very intuitive, they really nailed it. I had to move to a Blackberry with BB10 on it that got in that direction, but that will soon be an even more discontinued OSâŚ
Best to check out YouTube to see webOS in action.
LuneOS is still in development, but this time the period between releases seems to be longer than expected. The developers are quite devoted, though itâs a small group and RL can get in the way.
I know it is a long shot but I voted for the Replicant compatibly for a future Fairphone. I think itâs quite vital to address the software ethics that could mark the Fairphone as a champion of ethical issues for both hardware and software.
I understand this requires a good communication between developers at Fairphone and developers of the Replicant project since it involves also the hardware architecture, and not only the OS (having a good modem isolation for instance). I donât expect an official support from Fairphone developers, but a compatibility, similar to the LineageOS compatibility on the FP2.
