
It is being actively developed, and you can even find PinePhone running on Manjaro ARM while using KDE Plasma Mobile UI if you want to get your hands on a smartphone. Plasma Mobile is the mobile version of the desktop Plasma user interface, and aims to provide convergence for KDE users.

Plasma MobileĪ few years back, KDE announced its open source mobile OS, Plasma Mobile. Just to mention, the list is not in any hierarchical or chronological order. Let’s see what open source mobile operating systems are available. Top Open Source alternatives to Android (and iOS) I am going to list not one, not two, but several alternatives, Linux-based mobile OSes. So, what are the alternatives to Android? iOS? Maybe, but I am primarily interested in open-source alternatives to Android.

Android is still an open-source project, after all.īut, due to the bundle of proprietary software that comes along with Android on consumer devices, many people don’t consider it an open source operating system.

It’s no exaggeration to say that open source operating systems rule the world of mobile devices.
