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Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
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[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "running Linux"? Android is Linux.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn't run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean "running Linux" I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro.

[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for.