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WebOS

**Linux Mobile Hardware**:

Fairphone 6🇳🇱
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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.

**Benefits**:

Hardware freedom.
Perfect operating-system competition.
Full utilization of specs.
Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
Less e-waste.

**Linux Mobile Distros**:

Sailfish🇫🇮
Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪
Nura🇧🇪
Mobian
Pure OS🇺🇸
FuriOS🇺🇸
Plasma Mobile🇩🇪
LuneOS
openSUSE Mobile🇩🇪
Nemomobile
Droidian
Mobile NixOS
ExpidusOS
Maemo Leste
Manjaro Arm
Tizen
WebOS

**Linux Mobile Hardware**:

Fairphone 6🇳🇱
Jolla Phone🇫🇮
Volla Phone🇩🇪
Shift Phone🇩🇪
FLX1🇺🇸
Librem 5🇺🇸

⚙️Contribute

🧼Go Clean From the Duopoly:

!deapple@piefed.social
!deGoogle@lemmy.ca

💻Related Communities:

!linux@programming.dev
!librephone@programming.dev
!alpinelinux@lemmy.ca
!linux4noobs@programming.dev
!linuxvr@lemmy.ca
!privacy@programming.dev

📰News:

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!matrix@programming.dev

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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.

**Benefits**:

Hardware freedom.
Perfect operating-system competition.
Full utilization of specs.
Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
Less e-waste.

**Linux Mobile Distros**:

Sailfish🇫🇮
Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪
Nura🇧🇪
Mobian
Pure OS🇺🇸
FuriOS🇺🇸
Plasma Mobile🇩🇪
LuneOS
openSUSE Mobile🇩🇪
Nemomobile
Droidian
Mobile NixOS
ExpidusOS
Maemo Leste
Manjaro Arm
Tizen
WebOS

**Linux Mobile Hardware**:

Fairphone 6🇳🇱
Jolla Phone🇫🇮
Volla Phone🇩🇪
Shift Phone🇩🇪
FLX1🇺🇸
Librem 5🇺🇸

⚙️Contribute

🧼Go Clean From the Duopoly:

!deapple@piefed.social
!deGoogle@lemmy.ca

💻Related Communities:

!linux@programming.dev
!librephone@programming.dev
!alpinelinux@lemmy.ca
!linux4noobs@programming.dev
!linuxvr@lemmy.ca
!privacy@programming.dev

📰News:

💬Messager:

!matrix@programming.dev

⌚️Watch:

!asteroidos@piefed.social
!pinetime@programming.dev

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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