The FSF celebrates four decades of software freedom with a new president and the LibrePhone initiative for privacy-focused mobile computing.

The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Linux by design gives the user enough rope to hang themselves with.

    And that’s certainly not a problem when dealing with tech enthusiasts who know what, when and where to touch to avoid messing things up. But when you’re dealing with getting a phone into the hands of ordinary people, that isn’t going to fly because all of those people will at some point start mucking around inside and then expect tech support when they mess up.

    For mainstream adoption, the linux kernel must and the desktop environment must be at least somewhat locked down.

    • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      We have immutable distributions already, that is something that isn’t a problem. It’s replacing those pesky proprietary blobs used to talk to the hardware that is a headache.

    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Between capabilities, namespaces, control groups, mandatory access control (AppArmor etc) and other mechanisms, I think there are plenty of ways to reduce user access to any part of the system.