Seems @postmarketOS is now successful enough for some people to think it was the first community-run GNU-like/Linux distro for phones.
Let me remind you that SHR would turn 17yo this year, and it wasn't even the first one. I bet some #postmarketOS contributors are younger than that 😄
@dos @postmarketOS I was confused but such claims as well. Not even true amongst the currently active ones, I think. If I looked it up correctly, Maemo Leste even beat postmarketOS by few months in 2017. There are so many better defendable (i.e. true 😉️) extremely impressive statements to be made about pmOS, so there's no need to double down on this. (Though, are first at repurposing old Android phones? 🤔️)
@camelCaseNick @postmarketOS I think it's just a matter of pmOS gaining some wider recognition these days, I don't think it's intentional. The only past project in this space that was similarly well-known was perhaps Openmoko, but its nature was a bit different.
SHR also targeted some Android phones, but it never really went far with them. Today's hardware ages much slower and is much more similar across brands than it used to 15 years ago, so it's easier for community efforts to progress.
