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		feitingen 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FSF announces Librephone project That's not entirely true. Most PostmarketOS devices start out using LineageOS kernels, and many are atill using those. Why not use PostmarketOS kernels on LineageOS? The ultimate goals are different, but cooperation on upstreaming kernel work would benefit both.

zozbot234 26 days ago [–]

LineageOS kernels are AOSP downstream kernels, and PostmarketOS has expressly deprecated their use. LineageOS is now working on running their system on close-to-mainline kernels, as provided by PostmarketOS and most Linux distributions.

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