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which linux phone is the most promising?
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There is a commercial phone linux: SailfishOS. IMO also the most polished one.
If those fuckers at Microsoft hadn't intervened with Nokia, we might have these things on much more devices. Meego was so promising 😔
Been daily driving SailfishOS for absolutely years. Originally ran it on a Nexus 4! It's by far the most polished not-Android/iOS phone OS going right now.
Is sailfish OS on a libre software license?
No. The bits that make it Sailfish, the UI, are proprietary.
Then I guess I would not put muy 5 cents there.