Another nice thing the Swiss have 🥳
Grab your Swiss knife with your pmos Fairphone that supports Wero and don’t forget the chocolate!
I wonder where they got Switzerland from. Looking at the PostmarketOS core contributors, many seem to be from the Netherlands or other European countries. My understanding is that PostmarketOS is almost completely volunteer run, with whoever is willing to contribute.
Maybe the legal organisation is based in Switzerland.
Does PostmarketOS and similar Linux smartphone OSes have the same security/permission model as Android?
No, regular user-space applications have full access to files and other info. However, if you only use the builtin package manager, you can trust that the apps you use are probably trustworthy.
Flatpak apps can be sandboxed, though many apps will come with very loose permissions by default.
Thanks, this kinda makes Linux phones a tough sell for me.
We already have this large ecosystem of FOSS and proprietary android apps with a strict security model and permissions.
Smartphones have to much personal data, a lot more than a regular computer, at least in my case.
I do appreciate having an option of something else though, or of course if using older phones where there are no more android / security updates
its also good
