Late report from FOSDEM 2020 Posted on 4 July 2020 by dllud

On the 1st and 2nd of February 2020, 4 Replicant contributors (FilBerg, GNUtoo, GrimKriegor and dllud) attended FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels. FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual conference organized by volunteers, to enable users … Continue reading →

What could go wrong with devices that have non replaceable batteries ? Posted on 1 April 2020 by GNUtoo

Edit1: Added forgotten link for rooting devices Edit 2: Fixed wrong link location for rooting devices Edit 3: Added Epilogue In the summer 2019, in the Replicant contributors conference in Paris, the people present were all in favor of not … Continue reading →

Replicant at FOSDEM 2020 Posted on 6 January 2020 by dllud

As happens every year, FOSDEM is taking place on the first weekend of February. Several Replicant contributors will be at the event, eager to meet with other people interested in the project. During Saturday Replicant will share a little corner … Continue reading →

Replicant @ 36C3 Posted on 26 December 2019 by dllud

Starting on December 27th, the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is taking place in Leipzig. Replicant will be there as part of the Critical Decentralization Cluster. Replicant’s assembly will feature demos of the current Replicant 6 as well as the … Continue reading →

Graphics support for Replicant 9 Posted on 21 July 2019 by Joonas Kylmälä

Thanks to volunteer effort and NLnet funding we have had developers working hard the past couple weeks on making graphics work on the Samsung Galaxy S3 for the upcoming Replicant 9 release. Three different software renderers have been successfully used … Continue reading →

Replicant contributors meeting the 27,28 July in France Posted on 18 June 2019 by GNUtoo

A Replicant contributors meeting will take place in or near Paris in France the 27 and 28 July 2019. As we are still looking for a place to host the meeting, we don’t have a definitive address yet. It will … Continue reading →

Meeting Point at FOSDEM Posted on 30 January 2019 by Fil

The Replicant Community Meeting will take place on Sunday, the 3rd of February at 11:00 AM in room J.1.106 at ULB, Brussels Belgium.We have successfully booked a BoF room at FOSDEM, so we will have a quiet, heated and comfortable … Continue reading →

The Replicant project will receive a mobile device from Necuno Solutions Posted on 20 January 2019 by GNUtoo

The Replicant project has been looking forward to support devices with free software bootloaders. While Replicant is a fully free software Android distribution, many freedom, privacy and security issues are orthogonal to the operating system. The hardware design of each … Continue reading →

Replicant meeting at FOSDEM 2019 Posted on 19 January 2019 by Fil

Call for participants Like every year, FOSDEM will take place the first weekend of february in Brussels, Belgium. Replicant is organizing a community meeting and a workshop that will take place alongside FOSDEM events.The main intention behind this is to … Continue reading →

Final days for the upstream Linux Allwinner VPU support crowdfunding campaign Posted on 7 March 2018 by Paul Kocialkowski

A crowdfunding campaign was launched over a month ago by Bootlin in order to fund the development of an upstream Linux kernel driver for the Allwinner CedarX VPU. The VPU (Video Processing Unit) is in charge of offloading video decoding … Continue reading →