36c3-english.md

title	subtitle	author	date	theme	aspectratio
Exciting developments around Linux on Phones	Lightning Talk at the 36th Chaos Communication Congress	Jan Sprinz (@NeoTheThird)	28.12.2019	CambridgeUS	169

About me

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who i am

• Jan Sprinz, 22, he/him
• FOSS dev
• board member @ UBports Foundation

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where to find me

• twitter.com/neothethird
• mastodon.social/neothethird
• github.com/neothethird
• gitlab.com/neothethird
• [email protected]

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Why even bother?

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...because Android f@¢1ng sucks

Ubuntu Touch

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ubuntu-touch.io

• started in 2013 as the official mobile version of Ubuntu Linux
• shipped four phones and two tablets, plus community ports
• handed over to the UBports Community in 2017
• lives on as a non-profit project

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KDE Plasma Mobile

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plasma-mobile.org

• adaptation of KDE neon for mobile devices
• not entirely ready for daily use yet, but man, it's cool
• it's KDE on a phone, how are you not excited about this?

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PostmarketOS

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postmarketos.org

• aims for longevity of existing phones
• re-thinks some technical aspects
• alpine-linux based rootfs
• alpha state

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PinePhone

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pine64.org

• Open Hardware
• Software provided by communities
• Actual Linux ("or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux")
• Affordable price (150 USD)

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Volla Phone

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volla.systems

• up and coming German startup
• experimenting with alternative OSs
• phone built in the EU

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UBports Installer

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github.com/ubports/ubports-installer

• user-friendly cross-plattform GUI installer
• originally created for Ubuntu Touch, now bringing more OSs
• join in on the fun at github.com/ubports/ubports-installer

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Thank you for listening

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what we talked about

• ubuntu-touch.io
• plasma-mobile.org
• postmarketos.org
• pine64.org
• volla.systems
• github.com/ubports/ubports-installer

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how to get in touch

• twitter.com/neothethird
• mastodon.social/neothethird
• github.com/neothethird
• gitlab.com/neothethird
• [email protected]

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