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I just got myself a fairphone gen 6. I want to put postmarket OS on it, but had a kind of rough start. Haven't gotten it working yet :(
Ive got a 4. Its pretty fantastic on /e/ so far.
eOS works great for me on my fairphone 5, I suspect the model 6 is similar. Just be VERY careful about the anti-rollback protection, read the install instructions carefully and follow them exactly. And don't use the easy installer, it can brick your phone.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP6/install
For everyone else, here are the supported devices:
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
eOS is based on aosp though.
Postmarket OS isn't? Oh whoa, I just checked for myself, I had no idea, thought it was aosp too!
Cool, thanks for the correction.
Yeah. Seen this story before. Google will shit all over AOSP, and it will slowly start hurting more and more. Thought I'd give a full blown Linux mobile distro a go this time around. Maybe even get to contribute some
Great idea. I'm going to consider the same.