What OS's on the pinephone will allow sms messages? And what app would be use for that?
Better yet, is there anyway to use signal messenger for sms as well? Currently the desktop Linux version of signal is only for communication to other signal users using mms. Would an android like implementation work, where signal can also send sms messages?
I'm running Debian on my PinePhone. I guess if I try to set up Signal, the easiest would be to port the Debian desktop version to ARM64. It wouldn't have all the same features as regular Signal though and would rely on pairing it with an existing install. That would be a fun project.
For now I look to other things like Matrix.org as solutions
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signal was used for sms also but for security resons they disabled it
so don't hold your breth
ezik
for sms you can use chatty or whatever comes with your distro
mms is somwhat tricky because you need diferent APN for it
ezik
SMS is supported on basically every distribution.
Plasma Mobile uses Spacebar, Phosh uses Chatty, other environments have their own SMS app.
Hello
Silence, a fork of Signal, still supports SMS as far as I remember. It works under Android and you can use it with an Android emulator on a Pinephone under GNU Linux.
