Abstract
Phosh is group of people that care about freeing the mobile devices in our pockets from proprietary operating systems. It is also a graphical shell targeting mobile devices running a (close to mainline) Linux kernel. This currently includes the PinePhone and Librem 5 as well as devices initially shipping with Android (like the OnePlus 6/6T or Pocophone F1). It is shipped in Linux distributions like postmarketOS or Debian/Mobian and can also be used for devices that currently don't have a mainline Linux option by repurposing the Android kernel via e.g. the Droidian project. It builds on well known components from the Linux ecosystem like GTK, GNOME, the wlroots compositor library and others (see https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-overview/).
In this post we give a short look back on what happened in the project during the last year to give more people a way to use their devices as they wish for as long as they want, free from tracking and surveillance.
Privacy and surveillance, Hardware-hacking and permacomputing