I had Sailfish running on my Nexus 5 for a few weeks. It was a bastardized unofficial ROM which required some voodoo magic to get running, but after it was installed, the only thing I remember...
I had Sailfish running on my Nexus 5 for a few weeks. It was a bastardized unofficial ROM which required some voodoo magic to get running, but after it was installed, the only thing I remember being broken was the Android emulator.
Unfortunately, three weeks without Firefox eventually drove me over the edge and I was back to Lineage.
Sailfish was reminiscent of Maemo on the Nokia N900 in a lot of ways. It was rough around the edges, but it felt more like being on the frontier rather than being stuck in a half baked dead end.
The smartphone operating system market can surely use more competition, anyway.
Do they have any plans to port Firefox to it? I'd love to be able to ditch Android, but there are a few things like Firefox that I personally can't live without.
Do they have any plans to port Firefox to it? I'd love to be able to ditch Android, but there are a few things like Firefox that I personally can't live without.
The Android version of Firefox runs perfectly. :-) Assuming you get the paid version of Sailfish, which comes with an Android run-time virtual machine.
The Android version of Firefox runs perfectly. :-) Assuming you get the paid version of Sailfish, which comes with an Android run-time virtual machine.
The only thing keeping me from being excited about Sailfish is not being able to run it in the US. The only phones that run it don't operate on US LTE bands. (Actually, I think they support a Sony...
The only thing keeping me from being excited about Sailfish is not being able to run it in the US. The only phones that run it don't operate on US LTE bands.
(Actually, I think they support a Sony phone that has US bands, but they block the US from buying the OS right now....)
I started using Sailfish OS by getting the community port first and later on buying the official version. I don't know if you would be able to buy Sailfish over a VPN if you really wanted to. That...
I started using Sailfish OS by getting the community port first and later on buying the official version. I don't know if you would be able to buy Sailfish over a VPN if you really wanted to.
That being said, I do understand that using the community port or buying the official version over a VPN is not really an ideal solution.
I really like using Sailfish a lot but it currently needs the Android support of the official version because it's missing a lot of the native versions of apps I like to use.
Heh. In case you don't know, in Russia Sailfish OS is considered by some to be a part of yet another “imports phaseout” corruption scheme. The Russian government “doesn't want Russian citizens to...
Heh.
In case you don't know, in Russia Sailfish OS is considered by some to be a part of yet another “imports phaseout” corruption scheme. The Russian government “doesn't want Russian citizens to be spied on by Google and Apple” and thus will “support a more open alternative”. They allegedly exist for the sole reason of (1) taking the money from the government, (2) commit something to the repos, (3) ???, (4) PROFIT. According to some estimates, the Russian government is going to spend up to ₽160 billion, which is around $2.5 billion, to produce Sailfish-powered "secure" smartphones for the government officials. Some go as far as to call it Raspil OS.
I honestly don't know what to make of this. I've been approached by recruiters of these companies before. They don't seem to be that different from any other company working in the B2G sector.
Yet another, are they that common? I was excited when that was announced, years ago, but nothing's happened by now, so nothing's likely to happen in the future either I think.
Yet another, are they that common?
I was excited when that was announced, years ago, but nothing's happened by now, so nothing's likely to happen in the future either I think.
I don't know how common they are, but they definitely do exist. In and of itself imports phaseout is not that bad. I've heard that the Russian agricultural sector had a nice boost from the embargo...
I don't know how common they are, but they definitely do exist. In and of itself imports phaseout is not that bad. I've heard that the Russian agricultural sector had a nice boost from the embargo put on European food by the government. But when it comes to technology, there are a lot of talks about venturous businessmen using the situation to either resell products produced elsewhere as “Russian-made” or selling open-source products and sharing some part of the contract with the right people.
I had Sailfish running on my Nexus 5 for a few weeks. It was a bastardized unofficial ROM which required some voodoo magic to get running, but after it was installed, the only thing I remember being broken was the Android emulator.
Unfortunately, three weeks without Firefox eventually drove me over the edge and I was back to Lineage.
Sailfish was reminiscent of Maemo on the Nokia N900 in a lot of ways. It was rough around the edges, but it felt more like being on the frontier rather than being stuck in a half baked dead end.
The smartphone operating system market can surely use more competition, anyway.
Do they have any plans to port Firefox to it? I'd love to be able to ditch Android, but there are a few things like Firefox that I personally can't live without.
The Android version of Firefox runs perfectly. :-) Assuming you get the paid version of Sailfish, which comes with an Android run-time virtual machine.
Their stock browser is based on Firefox.
The only thing keeping me from being excited about Sailfish is not being able to run it in the US. The only phones that run it don't operate on US LTE bands.
(Actually, I think they support a Sony phone that has US bands, but they block the US from buying the OS right now....)
I started using Sailfish OS by getting the community port first and later on buying the official version. I don't know if you would be able to buy Sailfish over a VPN if you really wanted to.
That being said, I do understand that using the community port or buying the official version over a VPN is not really an ideal solution.
I really like using Sailfish a lot but it currently needs the Android support of the official version because it's missing a lot of the native versions of apps I like to use.
Heh.
In case you don't know, in Russia Sailfish OS is considered by some to be a part of yet another “imports phaseout” corruption scheme. The Russian government “doesn't want Russian citizens to be spied on by Google and Apple” and thus will “support a more open alternative”. They allegedly exist for the sole reason of (1) taking the money from the government, (2) commit something to the repos, (3) ???, (4) PROFIT. According to some estimates, the Russian government is going to spend up to ₽160 billion, which is around $2.5 billion, to produce Sailfish-powered "secure" smartphones for the government officials. Some go as far as to call it Raspil OS.
I honestly don't know what to make of this. I've been approached by recruiters of these companies before. They don't seem to be that different from any other company working in the B2G sector.
Yet another, are they that common?
I was excited when that was announced, years ago, but nothing's happened by now, so nothing's likely to happen in the future either I think.
I don't know how common they are, but they definitely do exist. In and of itself imports phaseout is not that bad. I've heard that the Russian agricultural sector had a nice boost from the embargo put on European food by the government. But when it comes to technology, there are a lot of talks about venturous businessmen using the situation to either resell products produced elsewhere as “Russian-made” or selling open-source products and sharing some part of the contract with the right people.