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Author Topic: Thoughts on Replicant? (FSF approved Android fork)  (Read 2579 times)

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Thoughts on Replicant? (FSF approved Android fork)
« on: August 10, 2013, 06:00 AM »
Anyone have any opinions or experience or comments on Replicant?

http://replicant.us/

It's approved of by the FSF, which goes a LLLOOONNNGGG way in my books as far as trust goes. Not so sure about how it is operationally though.
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Re: Thoughts on Replicant? (FSF approved Android fork)
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2013, 09:28 PM »
For anyone wondering like I was, Replicant is an open source Android operating system. Or something.

Sounds cool in theory, but the question is: how does it run on my hardware?

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Re: Thoughts on Replicant? (FSF approved Android fork)
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2013, 11:08 PM »
Hehehe! You did the same thing I do sometimes! (Miss a bit in the title.) :D

It only runs on some hardware right now, so, kind of bad there, but there are a lot of obstacles for different hardware, so understandable.

It doesn't run on my hardware, but if/when I get a new phone, I might opt for a model that's supported by Replicant.
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Re: Thoughts on Replicant? (FSF approved Android fork)
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2013, 04:53 PM »
When I read "Android fork" I didn't realize it was a fork of Android. I thought it was a fork of some software for Android.