said deloptes via tde-users:
| dep via tde-users wrote: | > I've never even seen a Linux cellular application. | | Besides the mainstream trying to do something for mobile devices, there | are few quite good projects.
Yes. I have a ThinkPad running Linux, and I want to make a phone call. So I repartition the drive to make a place for a Linux-based telephone operating system for amd64 and -- oh, wait, there isn't one -- after which I can make my phone call.
Rather, I meant a Linux *application* -- that's why I used the word -- that lets one make a call from the desktop, the way VOIP applications such as MySudo does, only employing the cellular network, enabled by cellular hardware in the device itself.
| For example MeeGo that later became Sailfish OS and was exported to | Russia as Aurora OS or the Android itself. | I've been using Sailfish OS approx. 10y now. It is quite usable and IMO | the best of all non Android OSs. They have also a small eco systems with | native applications.
Yes. I ran Sailfish on my dinky Planet Computers Gemini. I even got a Sony Xperia X to run Sailfish, which I licensed. (Which was slightly complicated in that they didn't sell to users in the U.S. so I had to install the Opera browser and use its built-in VPN to pretend to be in Europe so that I could send them their $50 or whatever it was.) Found that native applications were few and that the optional-at-extra-charge Android layer was kludgy and weird. Re-enablin the repositories after every update was a special annoyance. We were all pulling for it, but the Russian invovement was highly suspect, as was the heap of binary blobs. Finally settled on a Pixel running GrapheneOS, which is actually secure when intelligently approached.
I see that Jolla is still alive to some extent, trying to sell phones, computers, and even licenses for various devices, still not to the U.S.
But that wasn't what was talking about when I said I'd never encountered a cellular application for Linux. Which I still haven't.