| ▲ | nehalem 6 hours ago |
| Seeing news like this, I wonder whether there is a market for an OSS Android and/or Linux distribution that provides the management comfort of Chromebooks without being tied to Google, Apple or Microsoft. A little like Keycloak but one layer higher. |
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| ▲ | calgoo 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| With all the US/EU issues currently, you might even be able to spin up a company to support European services that need management based on OSS management software. |
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| ▲ | roryirvine 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ubuntu is pretty strong already in that niche - either using Landscape as a first party management solution, but it also tends to be the distro most-commonly recommended by the big third-party MDM vendors like Scalefusion and Jumpcloud. Not sure what their mobile story is like, but they certainly cover laptop / desktops. |
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| ▲ | mariusor 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If Android is not a blocker, maybe even then, Jolla, a Finnish company, has been offering a Linux based mobile OS for quite some time. I frankly don't get why other EU companies building the hardware, like Fairphone and Volta, don't partner up with them. |
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| ▲ | fsflover 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Android > without being tied to Google That's a contradiction. |
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| ▲ | rcMgD2BwE72F 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | No. I'm on GrapheneOS and not tied to Google. You must be thinking of the Google Play Services but these aren't required by GrapheneOS. | | |
| ▲ | izacus 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No, we're thinking about the fact that Android is Google owned and developed and no removal of Play Services changes that. Every Android ROM is critically dependant on Googles work to actually develop and secure the OS. | |
| ▲ | catlikesshrimp 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It is tied to google inasmuch all target phones are google branded.
https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices Hopefully that can change, in the future | | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As long as it depends on Google paying upstream development that GrapheneOS updates from, it is tied to Google. Now if GrapheneOS was its own thing without additional AOSP code updates. | | |
| ▲ | philipallstar 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | This becomes sophistry, though. "tied to" in a way that doesn't matter, doesn't matter. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ah but it does, as Google can decide to close down AOSP shop at any moment. | | |
| ▲ | microtonal 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If that happens, the world can always try to fork. Until then it seems kind of pointless to do so? | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Try is the keyword here. Hence why these efforts should not rely on US institutions good will in first place. | |
| ▲ | metalman 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Can try to fork?, china , russia, and lots of smaller countrys are steadily moving away
and as basic introperability standards for phone and internet will remain, they can do this, and pressure is also mounting to get a linux phone fully functional, that will alao happen.
And in a world where Guggappl is providing genocide and abduction services, Billions would happily choose other alternatives. | | |
| ▲ | kombine 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | China and Russia are likewise involved in their own genocides (Uyghurs and Ukraine respectively), and they are just as interested in developing centralised systems of control. They will not give the world truly free and open platform. |
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| ▲ | realusername 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The day they do that, Android will just be a Chinese product and Google will lose control over it. | | |
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