Announcing the Mobian project

[a-wai]

I think leaving it on the default value and installing the user-agent switcher extension would be better, as some websites (like WhatsApp Web) insist on you using their stupid app when you arrive with an Android user agent. But I guess the Firefox Android user agent posted by @minkiu should allow one to install the extension themselves.

That's a good point, I'll tweak the UA to be more in line with FF's default.

What are the benefits of Mobian vs. Purism's PureOS?

Mobian is closer to being "pure" Debian than PureOS:

• the base repository is Debian's archive, while PureOS uses a completely separate repo, by importing and rebuilding Debian packages; this means some packages present in Debian (and therefore, Mobian) won't be available on PureOS, or sometimes with an older version
  
• Mobian uses custom packages only when absolutely necessary (30 source packages as of today, not counting mobian- and pinephone-specific ones)
  • when the package needs to be modified to work fine with the phone's display (gtk, gedit, gnome-software...)
    
  • if upstream doesn't have required hardware support (mainly u-boot and the kernel)
    
  • because the package doesn't even exist in Debian (mostly the "phosh" ecosystem, although that should change soon)
    

I would also add that:

• patched packages use the most recent upstream version (and even Purism software land in Mobian first )
  
• Mobian doesn't include the default configuration for Purism's Librem One
  
• in the long run, Mobian will support more devices than PureOS (currently thinking about bringing it to the PineTab, and a Librem 5 build should also be available by the end of the year)
  

PureOs is really ment for the librem 5 only, and its fine tune for it

Indeed, however I believe mozzwald did a great job at tweaking PureOS to support the PinePhone