We Need an Open-source Phone OS - PostmarketOS!
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
summary
Phones ship with heavy proprietary stacks; postmarketOS aims for a mostly open, maintainable Linux userland built on postmarketOS with an upstream kernel and package manager from Alpine Linux. It provides tooling like pbootstrip, runs on about 111 community devices plus 342 testing and ~250 downstream ports (≈450 with some upstream kernel support), swaps forks for upstream kernels, and is usable for hackers now while lacking polished camera/audio stability for average users.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Android and iOS duopoly
- 4:39Android restrictions
- 6:47Third-party ROM limits
- 11:21PostmarketOS goals
- 14:27Upstream Linux kernel
- 17:36No Android reuse
- 19:46PostmarketOS adoption
- 23:15Future plans and contribute
- 26:26How to use PostmarketOS today
- 30:39Q&A
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