Unlike iOS and Android mobile phones, Linux phones give their owners full control of their devices, making them the ideal Personal Console.
Although still not ready for the masses, Linux phones are starting mature e.g. there are many Linux based OS for PinePhone.
A promising development direction is running virtual machines on the Linux Phone to create a Secure Console.
Pine64 offers 2 Linux based mobile phones:
As long as they keep their hardware open to any software (e.g. offering SPI and Tow-Boot capabilities in them), their phones are great low cost development devices.
List of OS available for PinePhone:
Note: We are NOT related with Pine64 in anyway, we do not make statements about the quality or value of their products. We simply listing ANYONE who produces open sourced mobile phones.
Purism offers multiple Linux based mobile phones:
Purism has developed their own operating system PureOS, although the phones can run other operating systems also.
Note: We are NOT related with Purism in anyway, we do not make statements about the quality or value of their products. We simply listing ANYONE who produces open sourced mobile phones.
https://volla.online/en/index.html
when loaded with Ubuntu Touch instead of Android.
https://www.fxtec.com/smartphones/
when loaded with Sailfish OS instead of Android.
Linux has already dominated the high-end of computing, it is time for it to do so at the low-end also.
Currently Linux is the only viable open sourced alternative to cloud dominated personal console operating systems like android, ios, windows, macos.
Linux is difficult to use, but currently provides the most secure consoles.
| Console | 5.10 | 5.15 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porteus Kiosk | Y | |||
| Tails | Y | |||
| Whonix | Y |
The Porteus Kiosk is part of our Secured Console solution for high security environments.