Plasma Mobile
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Its aim is to offer a Free (as in Freedom), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile runs on top of Linux, uses Wayland for rendering graphics and offers a device-specific user interface using the KDE Frameworks and Plasma library and tooling.
It uses the kernel named Linux? So it probably has the same blobs as in Android then (for interfacing with the hardware) and sadly doesn't bring us any closer to a Free (as in Freedom) mobile phone than its predecessors.
What was done for Replicant? Can something like that be done with Plasma Mobile?
From the article :-
"Plasma Mobile’s reference implementation runs on an LG Nexus 5 smartphone, using an Android kernel, Ubuntu user space and provides an integrated Plasma user interface on top of all that."
Sounds like a KDE fork of the UbuntuPhone (http://www.ubuntu.com/phone). KubuntuPhone?
In theory it would be possible to create a "TrisquelPhone", by stripping all the nonfree components out of UbuntuPhone, just like what's done to Ubuntu to create Trisquel. The problems would be the same as for Replicant; it would only run on a handful of devices (whichever kinds the TrisquelPhone developers had to benchmark against), and would be fiendishly complex to install, even for those of us who have got comfortable with install GNU+Linux on ex-Windows PCs.
The FSF has a campaign to gather information about efforts to restore full software freedom to Android/Linux devices:
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html
What would be really sick is if somebody could provide some simple instructions for hacking an iThing and replacing iOS with a libre OS. I think whipping out a liberated iThing at tech events would definitely make a statement ;)
"The problems would be the same as for Replicant; it would only run on a handful of devices"
Yes, People seem to like working on/overhauling/reinventing the easy, upper levels of mobile (which were already free) while ignoring the lower levels. This is the real area that needs focus in the mobile world.
I can't recall any other mobile OS than Android that works on so many different devices. Even if a free mobile OS runs only on a single model of a single brand it is still a Free mobile OS and a valuable asset to the community.
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