Now the cat is out of the bag anyway (I shouldn't have told people lol), I got #glacier running on #postmarketOS
@bart Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is glacier?
@leimon It's a FOSS replacement for the proprietary UI of SailfishOS. It uses the old Mer (nowadays Sailfish) stack underneath, and is based on Qt and QML.
@bart @leimon thanks for the clarification. The #postmarketos part is clear. Still that makes it a valid alternative for #librem5 and #pinephone?
@petrisch @leimon Uh, that is a strange question. The #librem5 and the #pinephone are phones, physical devices. #postmarketos and #sailfishos are software distributions. They can't be compared
@petrisch @leimon Not really. Actually, there is even a SailfishOS (with proprietary UI) port in the works for the #PinePhone. Not for the #Librem5 afaik, but nothing is impossible.
@Amgine @petrisch @leimon You're forgetting the #PinePhone 😉 But do note that #postmarketOS runs on both the #PinePhone and #Librem5 as well, not just on not-open phones.
@petrisch @bart @leimon
One way to think about the difference in hardware is that #Librem5 is designed to run vanilla #linux on a nearly-open phone-form computer. #PostmarketOS and #Sailfish are doing something quite hard: run an open OS on not-open phone hardware.