So they're working on a Linux smartphone over at librem but how long until we get an OPENBSD smartphone?
So they're working on a Linux smartphone over at librem but how long until we get an OPENBSD smartphone?
Easton Parker
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Isaiah Ward
Probably never. Smartphones will always require firmware blobs to work.
Landon Ross
This isn't really an issue.
Nolan Watson
Why openbsd?
Brody Bell
It is if you want OpenBSD on one.
Chase Gray
Android fucking sucks and Replicant isn't optimal as a daily driver. This new device seems to fit that middle ground until someone goes full hero and makes something that can be fully libre but also work with cell carriers.
Robert Ward
You're never going to get fully libre smart phones. At least not in the US.
Blake Morgan
I think we will get an open source phone that is based more on a distro linux then googles linux. It will be how you have an X220 with linux but it still have Intel ME etc.
Jeremiah Bailey
Some of it will always be black boxed because of the FCC and cell carriers. It would be nice to see a fully open smartphone, hell I'd probably dock it and use it as my daily driver. I don't think it will ever happen.
Ryder Russell
Could be sooner than you think, OpenBSD supports the imx6 platform already.
openbsd.org
Baseband yes, everything else can be libre, Librem 5 will not give the baseband DMA access and instead will communicate via USB with an open source driver.
Lunduke had the Purism CEO on his show, well worth the 50 minutes if you're at all interested.
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