F-Droid and Mobiles
I
seem to look like I have missed the bus as regard to the world.
There
is a reason for it.
Coming
from Linux base, I even did not like Android since it was
proprietary.
Like
Microsoft it flooded the market leaving behind alternative Linux Os
far behind.
Ubuntu
failed in its crowd finding of the Mobile Phone but it has put out
Ubuntu Touch which the next best alternative OS, currently.
I
was hopeful on Firefox Os and its phone but it is going through the
teething phase.
There
is Replicant of Gnome base that is making giant strides.
What
is interesting in Replicant it is able crack a proprietary phone and
install it instead.
It
took a long time for the CyanogenMod come to roost.
Replicant
is CyanogenMod minus proprietary components. There is Sailfish but
none of them could match the Android currently.
Using
a Rootkit to crack a proprietary phone may be costly and one loses
the warranty.
Until
then we have F-Droid, F stand for freedom dishing out over 1500 open
source packages that work on Androids.
As
at present, the mobile is a mini computer.
One
should have the freedom to use the way one uses a computer.
I
consider the mobile phone as a cloud client, almost all the Androids
can be hacked and vulnerable.
So
vulnerability can be eliminated by using the cloud.
Mind
you cloud also can be attacked.
To
use the mobile as a cloud client we need a light weight browser.
I am
glad to say there is one open source browser called Lightening which
is faster than any currently available browsers.
I am
bit rusty on all these issues but Linux Magazine is doing a great job
by having very illuminating articles.
I
hope they would do a magazine dedicated to Mobiles by December.
That
is the time everybody thinks of a new mobile or or a spare one or a
Tablet.
If
you do so please make sure or demand them to provide you security
packages / virus guards.
I am
writing a book (not related to mobiles and Linux) and I won't be
doing any in depth study, till I finish it.
