You can’t generally install Linux onto most (any?) existing phones that were not specifically made for it like the Pinephone, so I don’t know that it is helpful for extending the life of many devices.
I am not aware of any phones that don’t already support running Linux (Pinephone, Librem, and maybe one or two others) that can use Postmarket OS. I’d be both impressed and shocked if that has materially changed. Also, I have actually tried out Postmarket OS and it was not ready for use as a daily driver. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t give it a try though, as it won’t ever get there if technically minded people don’t use it and feed helpful feedback.
I thought the entire point of Postmarket was to extend the life of older phones???
Edit: Yeah, it is. The list of supported phones has 3 Linux-first phones, and all the rest are just standard android phones that you then have to flash and install Linux onto
That device list is much bigger than it used to be! Good on them. Sadly, it doesn’t look like many/most of those devices are still usable except to tinker. I imagine it was just devices that devs had handy. I’m quite impressed that they got it working on the SGS III.
You can’t generally install Linux onto most (any?) existing phones that were not specifically made for it like the Pinephone, so I don’t know that it is helpful for extending the life of many devices.
Postmarket OS is explicitly for that
I am not aware of any phones that don’t already support running Linux (Pinephone, Librem, and maybe one or two others) that can use Postmarket OS. I’d be both impressed and shocked if that has materially changed. Also, I have actually tried out Postmarket OS and it was not ready for use as a daily driver. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t give it a try though, as it won’t ever get there if technically minded people don’t use it and feed helpful feedback.
I thought the entire point of Postmarket was to extend the life of older phones???
Edit: Yeah, it is. The list of supported phones has 3 Linux-first phones, and all the rest are just standard android phones that you then have to flash and install Linux onto
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Main
That device list is much bigger than it used to be! Good on them. Sadly, it doesn’t look like many/most of those devices are still usable except to tinker. I imagine it was just devices that devs had handy. I’m quite impressed that they got it working on the SGS III.