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This is so cool, I love the project but have never been able to run it. What a lovely gem of good news in the mobile space to contrast against divestos shutting down. Hopefully it can take its position as a viable alternative to android roms in the next few years
It always puzzles me why they chose the one distro without systemd to base this on and are now trying to add it themselves.
Also I have thoughts about this:
Move sudo to community
At present, sudo is in the main repository, which requires us to provide security support for 2 years. Upstream sudo does not provide an "LTS" lifecycle, so this requires either performing security upgrades during the maintenance lifecycle, or backporting security fixes by hand.
Benefit to Alpine
Prior to the creation of the security team, there was an unofficial preference to push doas as the preferred pivot tool for Alpine. This reinforces that messaging. Additionally, we do not have to support sudo for a 2 year lifecycle, since there are no LTS branches for it.
How often does sudo have security vulnerabilities that it's worth moving to a lesser used tool whose vulnerabilities are less likely to be discovered against your security team's wishes? What do all the other distros do?
Yeah that does seem like an odd way to go about it. Other than full system upgrades I can't remember the last time I saw sudo in the upgrade list. Maybe I've just been missing it.
Yeah, they could've picked something like Debian. It's like they picked an embedded distro only to try to turn it into a full-fledged.
The article mentions that the cameras work on the Fairphone 5. Sadly its still a no go while there is still no audio which is a big shame.
cameras were prioritised before audio? Interesting choice
I wonder if it would work properly on Fairphone 4.
Damn, I wish I could try it on my Pixel 9 XL Pro.