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2017-10-20 , 06:40
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Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
Well, Jolla also used a whole lot of existing software left over from the MeeGo effort and from general Linux ecosystem. But it's true they also had to develop a lot of stuff themselves (UI layer & default apps).
Don't forget Jolla are basically maintaining Mer by themselves.

Still well be interesting to see how will Librem handle that - while Gnome Shell should not be that hard to use/change for a mobile device, you can't just run Evolution or Libre Office on a touchscreen phone with the current UI.

So a lot of existing software would still have to be adapted to be usable on a mobile device (basically the same problem Jolla had to solve) and someone needs to do that or people would not have any apps to run on their Librem phones.
Yeah but that's someone else's problem, right? Their part of the bargain is to produce hardware that can use a mainline Linux kernel, the rest is up to various other communities.
 

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