No thanks, I’d rather use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS
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buy privacy-first community driven phone look inside closed source OS with no recovery image and outdated dependencies
No thanks, I’d rather use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS
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buy privacy-first community driven phone look inside closed source OS with no recovery image and outdated dependencies
So does Graphene.
Both ship: Firmware, the HAL components (which are way more critical in my eyes as they have low level hardware access and could hide anything from the OS) Example for these are: The Camera Stack, the Audio Stack, under Graphene the Widevine DRM components.
Sailfish can run without these, e.g. on the Pinephone. Graphene OS can’t Graphene additionally comes with an eSIM binary, which is disabled by default Sailfish comes with proprietary UI components, a choice the company made because of their limited manpower as it allowed them to provide features where currently no open source solution exists or existed at the time of implementation) examples are swipe gestures for the keyboard, MS Exchange support, Android App support. That not great, but far from a closed source system where everything is closed source. There exist many patches for UI components because they are partly open source.
The OS ist still Linux, that is true. It is even LInux+GNU which Android is not. It is Linux with closed source components, thats true too.
Aren’t firmware and HAL in hardware/devices in the source tree for graphene? Also the camera stack/etc isn’t Google’s, it’s Graphene’s.
The Widevine comment is fair, but Sailfish needs to support DRM, too, so they’re in the same boat, there.
So graphene is also not open source then by your metrics? So some of the ui is closed source while on an os where you can trace and verify what is going on but an android derivative where you cant track whats going on in the os as freely with more critical closed source portions of its hardware is supposedly more open to you?
So either you know its there because you care so much to have verified the source code or you are just getting defensive about something you literally arent verifying…
What? Are you arguing without comprehending?
And what makes you think it’s easier to trace what is happening in SailfishOS? Tracing isn’t hard in Android.