[Replicant] Replicant 6.0

Kurtis Hanna kurtis at riseup.net
Wed Jan 6 22:27:46 UTC 2016


Might I suggest that you guys test out the Orfox nightly build by adding this repo on fdroid? https://dev.guardianproject.info/debug/info.guardianproject.orfox/fdroid/repo

I'm CC'ing Nathan Freitas who works on Orfox to this discussion as well.

I'd love to hear that Orfox and all other Guardian Project apps are working like a charm on Replicant 6.0 on the S3!

Nathan, I know you had some press in the past about putting together a Tails type of Android OS. I suggest Replicant as an upstream OS to base it on, since it respects user's freedom like no other android OS does.

In Freedom and Cryptography,
Kurtis
Twitter: @CaptainKurtis

On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:45:37 +0100
Wolfgang Wiedmeyer <wreg at wiedmeyer.de> wrote:

> > Really cool!  Does NFC work?  How serious is the webview issue, does it
> > affect all apps that embedd a web browser, or just the standalone
> > web browser?  Does firefox work on your build?
> 
> I do not use NFC and never tried to get it working with Replicant, so
> this would be something you could report back if you try it out.
> Webview affects all apps that embed a browser view. But I don't see it
> as a serious issue. It should be doable to patch the chromium source
> code, but it takes some experience and time. Doing security patches
> could quickly become cumbersome if we have to stay with the older version.
> Firefox does still not work. Personally, I don't care for Firefox on
> Android anymore. The binaries, that come directly from Mozilla, are
> built against the proprietary google play services, so they are not free
> software. The F-Droid folks are trying for a very long time now to get
> their own build working which would be compiled with only free
> software. They were successful for some time, but recent versions are
> trouble again. That's why you currently only find the binaries from
> Mozilla in F-Droid. OrFox could be a solution in the future, but I
> suspect that there will still be problems with EGL.
> 
> > I thought that a lot of builtin functionality had been removed from
> > AOSP for 6.x and replaced by proprietary apps and services from Google,
> > is 6.x without non-free apps as functional as replicant 4.2?
> 
> I am not missing any functionality so far. I had to readd the Gallery
> and Camera app, however. I guess CyanogenMod did a great job in this
> regard. There is now even a terminal app included, but it has to be
> activated from the developer settings.
> 
> > I have spare S3's here, I'll try to build your tree and see if I get
> > something that boots.
> 
> Please let me know if it works for you! I am currently trying to get rid
> of the prebuilt toolchain, so there could be issues in the future when
> building the code with a setup that is different from mine. I will try
> to push changes in this area only when I am reasonably sure that it
> won't break the build for others.
> 
> > Thanks for working on this!
> >
> > /Simon
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> happy new year to you all!
> >> 
> >> The last weeks I was working on getting Replicant upgraded to a newer
> >> CyanogenMod/Android release. I only work on the Samsung Galaxy S3 as
> >> I only own this device for testing. I posted a report on the current
> >> status and my work to the development forum:
> >> https://redmine.replicant.us/boards/21/topics/12057
> >> Basically all functionality works now, but there is still some work
> >> left.
> >> 
> >> I will also make a video that shows the current status.
> >> 
> >> I hope that my work can be useful for getting Replicant upgraded to a
> >> newer release!
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> Wolfgang
> >> 
> 



More information about the Replicant mailing list