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posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 06 2017, @06:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the little-red-robot-is-alive-and-kicking dept.

Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security.

Wolfgang Wiedmeyer of Replicant reports

Replicant 6.0 is moving forward and quite some work has been done over the last months.

- Galaxy S2

Only the Galaxy S3 was supported for a very long time. Recently, support for the Galaxy S2 was added. This was made possible because two community members, Grim Kriegor and dllud, sent me a device. The initial work on the device by another community member, Jookia, also gave me a head start for the port.

- GTA04

[...] I assisted Lukas Märdian from Goldelico with porting Replicant 6.0 to the GTA04 and at the end of the [8th Open Hardware and Software Workshop], we were able to boot Replicant 6.0 and had basic functionality working. Lukas continues to work on the port and I'm planning to integrate his changes and get Replicant 6.0 ready for the GTA04.

- Support for external WiFi dongles with the AR9271 chipset [...]

- Graphics rendering [...]

- Toolchain [...]

- Security/privacy enhancements [...]

- Current work and future plans

Porting Replicant 6.0 to more devices is a priority right now. [...]
Replicant is based on CyanogenMod 13.0. As the CyanogenMod project was discontinued, future Replicant 6.0 versions will be based on its successor, LineageOS 13.0.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @09:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @09:44AM (#463369)

    FTFS: two community members, Grim Kriegor and dllud, sent me a device
    [...]
    Porting Replicant 6.0 to more devices is a priority

    Have something you want supported by Free Software?
    Give the guys doing the coding a sample of the hardware.

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    Old joke

    Every day, a guy prays, "Dear God, let me win the lottery."
    After a month and no change, he prays again.
    "Oh, Lord, why have you forsaken me?"
    A booming voice replies, "Buy a ticket, dummy."

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