Trisquel and Ubuntu Phone
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Anyone using Trisquel in conjunction with the Ubuntu Phone? At a very minimum I'd lke to be able to sync contacts and calendar with a POP/IMAP email program. Tethering would also be nice, but I'll be satisfied with contacts and calendar.
How could you use Trisquel with it?
(Relevant issue: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/14172)
Trisquel on a phone would be great, but as the link you've given says, it's not even on the cards yet. There is Replicant, which is a great project, but so far it only supports the handful of devices that CyanogenMod supports. Even if there was a 100% free OS that worked on all Android devices, getting root access to install it is complex, with different methods required on different hardware, and a high risk of bricking the devices completely if you get it wrong (AFAICT it's both as tricky and risky as flashing BIOS).
In the meantime, a number of us have mobile devices (I have a second-hand HP Slate 7 running Android), running F-Droid of course, and we would like to learn anything there is to know about how we can them in combo with our Trisquel laptop/ desktops. Helpful suggestions would be most appreciated :)
I am definitely interested in a Trisquel flavor on a phone too!
I recently picked up a OnePlus One phone which comes preinstalled with a CyanogenMod, however the closest I have seen to a "Libre" Linux phone is at:
plasma-mobile.org
Someone managed to get it working on the OnePlus One with a hack (..and the Nexus 5):
plasma-mobile.org/devices/
The day I see Trisquel in a phone I will be dancing with latin music.
The day a see a libre modem and a libre bootloader in a phone, I will dance naked at the beach.
"The day a see a libre modem and a libre bootloader in a phone, I will dance naked at the beach."
is this not the openmoko GTA02?
also dose anyone know if more of these will ever be produced?
i know the GTA04 is in development but its wifi card still requires non-free firmware so its not ideal
Yes, the Openmoko models have a libre bootloader but they don't have a libre modem and I would love to see those devices succeed.
the modem can be used with full free software?
I don't know the answer but that is irrelevant because we don't know what the modem is truly doing. On the good site, a good isolation can make the device relatively appropriate.
Please, could anyone answer the question tomlukeywood made?
Found this. Thought it might be interesting:
I am a member!
So I'm using an Ubuntu phone. While compared to other phones you're certainly more free here, it's not fully free in any way, so I don't know if it is relevant for this forum/list, but I can give you some answers to your questions:
>I'd lke to be able to sync contacts and calendar with a POP/IMAP email program.
I use syncevolution for this. I don't think there's a GUI for this (at least there wasn't when I started using Ubuntu Touch), but you have access to a terminal anyway so it's easy to configure and sync from there. I have my calendar/contacts stored on a server that supports CalDAV and CardDAV, and then just sync it everyday. That way when I make a change somewhere else, it will propagate to any of my other devices after the sync. Of course you could also write a cronjob for this, most of GNU tools and standard tools that you know from a Linux environment are available on the phone. (As long as they work with ARM.) The only thing that doesn't work for me is GnuPG, and that's why I don't use E-Mail at all on my phone, because all of my mail is encrypted. There is an e-mail client that is kind of decent (Dekko), but that's it.
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