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@advocatux said in Not enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives:

@gb making the system rw is not really a good idea for many reasons. If you want to use apt it's better to do it inside a contained environment, like Libertine for example.

Yes but I want to be able to use CLI tools on the real system to control the real system, control the machine, not be sandboxed in a container.

Can you explain what is insecure about "legacy packaging" (i.e apt ), and why it would be more insecure on the phone than it is on a laptop or a server?

@dobey

Actually I got the above problem trying to install a console program (dig) to do some in-field testing. To me all console programs make perfect sense being run on phones as they are on desktop, server, router, super-calculator, robot ... . And they can be used to really control the system.

On the other hand, on the graphical side, lately purism seems to make a great job adapting gnome apps for phone, so I guess we just have to wait and see.

@pparent This is not a good idea to do.

No disrespect, but I think this is why I will choose pureOS in the long run, whenever I receive the phone and it is usable.

As users I want to be able to do the same things we can do on our computer, and be in control of our device, without being artificially limited, and not being sandboxed into a container. Otherwise I would use Android!

sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt
sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0

Concerning purism, I think they go beyond what I expect in terms of freedom. This post shows it:

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurdle/

Not sure why replicant guys are mad. But on a fully free software phone I would definitely not like replicant, I want a real Gnu/Linux! Also they are reproaching Intel's management engine in purism's laptop, saying it would be impossible to disable, but they actually succeed in disabling it:

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/

I recently learned about this project which seems very interesting, and allows clear control about non-free software and firmware installed. Could be usefull for a web consultation device on N900 or Sony Xperia Z2:

http://postmarketos.org/
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

I don't know if unity/ubuntu touch could be ported on it at some point.

@flohack said in How much of non-free software is there in UBports images?:

If you think our documents are misleading please point out the respective text parts so that we can make it more clear. Thanks!

No, no I did not mean to say that you were misleading. Sorry if I seemd otherwise.

But reading a little bit the documentation I did not find immediatly an answer to this question so I asked it. I recently understood a little bit halium and so on, but that's a bit tecnhical at first.

So yes, each device that we port from Android to UT has a sinificant amount of non-free firmware and userspace services running.

Ok thank's for the clear answer!

As Android uses Linux kernel which is GPLed

Still contains non-free firmware blob though (which is nothing in comparison to Android Blob though). And Kernel allows non-free module, so I'm not sure to understand why they did this userspace trick

Librem 5 might be the answer

Yes I preorderd it!

Hi,

I'm wondering how much of non-free software is there in UBports?

I guess that there must be at least non-free firmware blob in the kernel, as only few distributions remove them ( e.g Debian, Trisquel, Pureos ). Are there also non-free drivers in the kernel for some devices? Are there other non-free software unrelated to the kernel installed by default?

I think it would be most interesting to have a most precise view on this question, since the free and open-source software argument is the main advantage of UBports against Android.

Also note that Replicant maintans a list of "Freedom and privacy/security issues" for each of its targeted devices. None of them is completly free of issues.

Thank's in advance for your reply!
PIerre.