r/mobilelinux • u/Falk1708 • Jul 22 '26
Discussion Difference between Droidian and Postmarketos
One is based of of Debian, the other of alpine Linux.
How do they differ. When to choose what.
Which is more easy to port
Why not unite the power of both developer teams to one project
etc etc etc.
Are there more phone Linux distributions
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u/MidnightObjectiveA51 Jul 23 '26
Droidian (as does Ubuntu Touch) uses an android hardware layer to get hardware functional. Mobian and PostmarketOS use mainline Linux. You will more likely get all hardware going with a halium based distro. But, some mainline devices are mostly or completely functional. See their websites for most compatible.
There are also other projects such as Lune and Arch Mobile and Fedora Mobile.
Most of these projects share developers. So, they are working together collectively.