Re: Project FreeBSD mobile phone : let's talk about the display I love to use

-> Nice project. Just to mention that FreeBSD was apparently successfully
installed in a pinephone
https://mastodon.social/@tobykurien/113779792572310611

Nice progress,but I don't like the oblong displays used by the Android
smartphone. That form factor is abused.
For this reason I haven't bought a Pinephone yet.

-> PS: Do you want to build a reliable smartphone yourself or should it be
something for the joy of tinkering?

I don't want to jailbreak anything. I want to choose the proper pieces of
hardware that can work with FreeBSD.
Regarding the software,I'm not able to create a driver for FreeBSD or a
huge piece of software by myself only.
But reading and asking I could ask or hire someone who can finish a code
that it's almost done or bugged.

I definitely want to build a reliable smartphone myself. Even if I'm
interested in installing Android on the BlackBerry Passport. TO be honest I
bought one of those 3 years ago because I knew that someday someone would
be able to hack it. And it happened some weeks ago. And no,in this case
there is no hope to install FreeBSD there. The jail break is for
Android,even if I think that one day we could even install Linux there.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
wrote:

> PS: Do you want to build a reliable smartphone yourself or should it be
> something for the joy of tinkering?
> I ask because I have an iPad 2 with a jailbreak for the fun of it. A
> jailbreak is much less demanding than installing another operating
> system on already existing hardware, let alone DIY hardware. You don't
> gain anything that is more reliable with a jailbreak, but you lose
> reliability and gain the freedom to play around with root rights.
>
>

-- 
Mario.