PostmarketOS distribution has initial support for iPhone 7

Developers postmarket OS, a smartphone distribution based on Alpine Linux, Musl and BusyBox, presented the initial port of the project for the iPhone 7. Due to limitations on the size of the kernel image, experiments are limited to downloading the minimum edition of PostmarketOS without a graphical interface. When assembling the kernel used patches from Corellium, as part of the project Sandcastle leading the work on porting Linux and Android to the iPhone.

Recall that the goal of the postmarketOS project is to ensure the possibility of using a GNU/Linux distribution on a smartphone that is not tied to standard solutions of the main industry players that set the development vector, and does not depend on the official firmware support life cycle. The postmarketOS environment is unified as much as possible and puts all device-specific components into a separate package, all other packages are identical for all devices and are based on standard packages Alpine Linux, which is selected as one of the most compact and secure distributions.

The Linux kernel and udev rules are being developed as part of a joint project halium, designed to unify system components for Ubuntu Touch, Mer/Sailfish OS, Plasma Mobile, webOS Lune, and other Linux solutions for devices shipped with Android. As the main graphical environments for smartphones are offered KDE Plasma Mobile ΠΈ phosh (front-end for GNOME-based Purism Librem 5), but also possible installing GNOME, Weston, Hildon, I3wm, Sway, Purism, ubports, LuneOS UI, MATE and Xfce.

Source: opennet.ru

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