Furilabs Linux Phone

Furi OS was what turned me away. Never heard of it and that makes me realise we don't have an android alternative OS which is permanent. Do we have any OS which is permanent? Shouldn't we have one?

FuriOS is a derivate of Droidian, which in turn is basically Debian with Halium support. So it's pretty much Debian + some custom patches for usability, hardware support, performance, so on. We intend to upstream as many of our changes as possible as time permits, but right now we are laser focused on improving the experience day in and day out.

Hi, thanks for answering questions here. How do you handle device encryption?

Are all of your patches open source? Given enough time, could a user build a "factory image" of FuriOS from source?

Yes. It doesn't even require a lot of time, all the build scripts are on our GitHub.

Once you turn on full disk encryption, the phone will reboot once and begin to encrypt the entire filesystem in the background. Further reboots will require that you input your FDE password (which can be different from your lock screen password/PIN) in a minimal rootfs-based UI.

What do you mean by "permanent"?

PostmarketOS is trying to be this.

Thanks for the answer. All the best!

My specific definition: 20 years later when a retired me boots up the device, it will be able to run the calculator app without shutting down.

That sounds like a hardware problem. But if the hardware works, why would you not be able to open any old app?

Sailfish is an Android alternative (that can also run Android apps): https://sailfishos.org/

I think they are worried about some cloud service shutting down preventing them from using their phone.