cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53279635
The rationale is interesting. I'm glad they kept the logo as it's recycling ♻️
It worked wonderfully to get the point across; "This is an OS you flash after your phone is no longer supported"
Nura is nice, I do like it, but I doubt it'll have the same instant "Oh I get it" that the name "postmarketOS" had. I could be wrong though.
The people who understand the meaning of a post-market operative system will already have experience installing Linux on their computers, in which case postmarketOS is no longer really a meaningful description.
I got used to pmOS, but never really liked it. Loving Nura, though it'll take a while to get used to.
I wanna get to the time when instead of "after your phone is no longer supported" we can get Nura-first devices we can expect will last many many years. :D
Might be a caching issue but the banner image still shows the old name for me.
Hey, that's pretty neat! It looks like the name is based off a rock structure in Italy, representing stability :D
It's also nice that it's easier to pronounce for non-native English speakers (or as a matter of fact, non-English speakers!)
The new .eco URL is also interesting, from what I can tell it's operated by a Canadian company called "Big Room", and to register, you need to pledge that you will support positive change for the planet and you need to be transparent about your actions that could affect the environment.
We've already seem sites with the .org TLD get struck down by the U.S. government (e.g. Autistici/Inventati getting sanctioned as a "global terrorist organisation" for providing email and blog hosting services to "far-left antifascist terrorists"), so moving away from that is probably a good thing.
I don't like the green washing domain costing 60 euros a year (+60 euros registration!) when it cost them cents... This is 101 gatekeeping internet in general, but I guess it OK for them to spent that amount of money to help closing the internet to small people with not that deep of money.
And this is not coming from a hater, I participated to PostMarketOS (as dev), I like the project and want to see the project growing, but I can't stand the current "slipping into fascism" trajectory of western societies. Giving corporation full control and removing everything that made the internet neutrality (you can't own a domain unless you have quiet the money now, don't event get me started on e-mail or IPv6). Green washing is not going to help.
green washing
From the blog post:
The .eco domain has strong policies which prevent abuse of the domain for greenwashing,
The price already screams "green washing", let's see the policies:
1- Take a simple pledge to show your commitment to environmental action.
2 - Affirm your eligibility by sharing your eco actions and commitments.
Yep! confirmed green washing.
What about the old name was hard in German? It lacks the silent letters and bastardized French that English is known for.
So what is a good medium/cheap phone from the last 3 years where Nura can be installed without any risk of failure or damage?
List of working devices can be found here - https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Devices
Unfortunately there are few with complete functionality. I believe the project has been on hold while they do an audit and figure out governance. Hopefully the name change means that process is nearing completion and the focus can return to device functionality. Forgive me if i'm mistaking this for another project though.
Not a single one?
FP6, "unofficially" as in, the patches are in a newer kernel version iirc, so when Nura catches up to said version, all the patches will work out of the box. ✨ For more info, I'd suggest checking this Community for all the FP6 updates
FP6
Hmpf. That's stretching the upper end of medium/cheap quite a bit.
So, a phone that's still well in the support window of the original vendor plus probably years more via LineageOS. I don't see a ton of value in postmarketOS on the FP6.
Yeah slim pickings :/
LineageOS is probably the better option rn but i expect the Nura device list to expand quite a bit over the next year or 2. Keep an eye on it!
Lineageos is android. Not an option for a linuxphone
I wish it was Nura OS or NuraOS.
Great, I like everything about it
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Guess all my posts are outdated now but i do like the new name.
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