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TFLOSSH: Towards Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Hardware

This repository is intended to be a non-exhaustive source of information on devices and software that are part of a journey towards Free/Libre Open Source Software and Hardware.

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Terminology

term expansion comments
TFLOSSH Towards Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Hardware "Towards" implies incomplete. It implies that this is a journey.
FOSS Free and open source software Ideally, this implies all software of the machine being free and open source and verifiably so. So, this would include chipset microcode, operating systems, applications etc.
FOSH Free and open source hardware Ideally, this implies all hardware of the machine being free and open source and verifiably so. So, this would include all chip architectures and all other hardwares such as main system boards and communciations devices.

Why free/libre and open source is needed

Intel Management Engine

AWS Elemental PLA chips

Priority free/libre and open projects

Why GNU/Linux on mobile devices is needed

Why Google is dangerous

FOSS laptops

System76

FOSS mobile devices

LineageOS

LineageOS devices comparison

Reddit thread 2019-06-30

Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 (X00TD)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (hlte)

General setup

Librem PureOS

PureOS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. Phosh is the PureOS GTK-compliant default user interface for phone-like devices. It uses a fork of wlroots as a Wayland compositor.

  • upcoming documentation

Librem 5

UBports Ubuntu Touch

UBports Ubuntu Touch devices

Meizu PRO 5 (turbo)

This is a device capable of running UBports Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS with Anbox for Android applications.

BQ Aquaris E4.5 (krillin)

This was the first commercially available phone to feature Ubuntu Touch.

Applications solutions for LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch

Libreboot

Libreboot is a free and open source BIOS or UEFI replacement.

Other

VPNs

setup of NordVPN via APK 2018-11-11T0252Z

browser extensions