Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.
Originally published on The Lever, but that one asks you to sign up.
Isn’t that proprietary? So not really an alternative, even if it is so-called “Real Linux” for the Linux fanboys.
Some of the UI isn’t open, otherwise it is Qt / Wayland / pyside with stsndard pkcon / rpm package manager and I program mine in Guile.
And the UI isn’t the serious issue. The serious issue is propietary firmware which prevents you from really running Android / whatever on a vendor phone and also that a phone does not have one but around five different processors and only the “OS” one can be controlled by your own software. An Intel Pocket PC is far better in that regard, except that it won’t work as a telephone.