Today #Jolla won the "Open World Hero Award" by COSS ("The Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions"). The award ceremony was part of the #Mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland. Congratulations to all the sailors!
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One tidbit of knowledge from today's #mindtrek conference in Tampere, Finland from Pauline Bessoles: #xwiki has a migration tool to ease migration from #atlassian #confluence:
https://xwiki.com/en/confluence-to-xwiki-migration/
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We'll write another thread later when the dust has settled and we've accustomed to our new phones. It is too early to give any final judgement in this topic.
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The https://sailfishos.app website helps determine how your important Android apps might work on #SailfishOS. We've contributed app reports there as well.
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@digitaalinenitsenaisyys@mementomori.social onneksi Euroopassa on tarjolla kohtuullisesti vaihtoehtoja mm. jenkkien pilvipalveluilla. Esimerkiksi ranskalainen OVHcloud, saksalainen Hetzner Cloud ja suomalainen Upcloud. Toiminnallisuutta ei ole läheskään yhtä paljon kuin jenkkien isoissa pilvissä, mutta riittävästi perustarpeisiin kun käyttää luovasti apuna avointa lähdekoodia.
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Jolla Phone's store page gives an overview of the new phone's hardware and other capabilities: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sept-26 We won't cover them here as they're largely irrelevant to what we wanted to achieve, which is #digitalsovereignty and #privacy.
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The new Jolla Phone's "Day 1" celebration was held in the capital city of Finland, Helsinki on 8th July 2026. We, two members of Gecos Analytics were present and received our new, shiny #Jolla phones running the open source #SailfishOS.
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The selling points of the #Jolla phone and #SailfishOS are #privacy and #digitalsovereignty. #Jolla Phone's CPU comes from Taiwan, memory from South Korea, camera from Japan and the chassis from China. The phones are, however, assembled in Salo, #Finland.
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Many used to be locked in to Windows because of its large application catalog. Now there are good (enough) open source application for most use cases and commercial software often runs on Linux as well. Many can now run non-Windows operating systems and survive.
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#windows #opensource #linux
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Jolla probably would have liked to avoid entanglements with Russia, but #digitalsovereignty was not a priority for Europe yet, so being picky was not really a commercially viable option.
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So, we wanted more #privacy and #digitalsovereignty. There are not really many options available for #Android and #iOS when it comes to mobile devices. The new #Jolla phone with #SailfishOS seemed to be the best open source non-Android option.
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In fact, #Jolla Ltd. nearly went bankrupt at the time. The founders of Jolla Ltd. had to create a new company, Jollyboys Ltd., and had to buy all of Jolla Ltd.'s stock to get rid of the Russian entanglements.
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#Jolla's commercial version of #SailfishOS has always been bundled with an #Android runtime. This applies to the new 2026 Jolla phone as well. As we live in a Android/iOS duopoly you need Android app support for things like banking applications, messengers and such.
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Then came Trump's second term in office and with it threats to annex Greenland, among many other things. It had became painfully obvious that Europe had to take the fast-track to #digitalsovereignty.
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The "market share" of Linux in desktop computers seems to have grown significantly in the recent years. Although Linux usage on the desktop is still in single digits, this is the first time Microsoft Windows desktop marketshare has ever been eroded to this extent.
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#linux #marketshare
Vendor lock-in is one major reason why #digitalsovereignty is hard. Here's a pretty good overview of what vendor lock-in means:
https://blog.radwebhosting.com/understanding-vendor-lock-in/
For some reason the article does not mention #opensource, which helps avoid vendor lock-in. For example, if you use SaaS application that is open source, you can easily switch to self hosting if needed.
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If a native #SailfishOS app is not available, you can sometimes just use an equivalent web service with the built-in web browser. The large screen of the new #Jolla phone helps here.
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There are no commercial apps in #Jolla Store due to technical limitations. Fixing this has not been a high priority due to the relatively small number of SailfishOS users.
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Second reason was related to #geopolitics. Russian Rostelecom was a major indirect shareholder in #Jolla Ltd. This became a major liability with Russias full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Tampereella on tänään COSS ry:n järjestämä, vuosittainen avoimen lähdekoodin Mindtrek-konferenssi:
Yhtenä konferenssin kantavana teemana on digitaalinen suvereniteetti. Olemme paikalla ja raportoimme tapahtumista.
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For more information about #Jolla Ltd.'s reastructuring look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla
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Releasing a widely disliked operating system, Windows 11, combined with the ever-increasing viability of Linux as an alternative has sure played a role. Microsoft Windows in general has become less and less relevant over the years.
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#linux #windows #windows11
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It is usually quite easy to install a Linux distribution on a system that used to run Windows. The key to good Linux experience is hardware: you really want hardware that is well-supported by Linux. If that is the case, then the rest will be smooth sailing.
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#linux
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#SailfishOS comes with a reasonable selection of native Linux apps. The two main sources are the Jolla Store and Openrepos.
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The reduced importance of the personal computer is tied to the general trends where workloads are increasingly hosted by SaaS service providers or on Internet and intranet web servers.
#pc
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The #SailfishOS operating system evolved from Nokia's #Maemo (used in Nokia N770, N800 and N900) and Nokia/Intel #Meego (used in Nokia N9). So, its roots reach back to the #Nokia N770 internet tablet released in 2005.
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The new #Jolla Phone also comes with #MicroG which allows running Android applications that depend on Google Play services. This improves the usefulness of #Android support in #SailfishOS greatly.
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Today, in year 2026, there are fewer and fewer reasons to use Microsoft Windows.The personal computer has long been mostly a web browser for many. Some cope with just a smartphone or a tablet.
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#pc
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More details about #MicroG are available on its website: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki
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So, here we are with our first impressions of the new #Jolla Phone (2026). As few if any buy it for its technical specifications, we'll focus on "how well can it replace Android as a daily driver".
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The are fairly regular glitches in the #Android runtime. For example an app might suddenly refuse to launch. This can be fixed by restarting Android support.
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Both of us had a "Sailfish pause" between 2021-2026 for two distinct reasons. First, running certain critical #Android apps had become too big a hassle to manage in #SailfishOS.
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Sometimes #Android app updates may cause issues on #SailfishOS. You can downgrade to an older version if that happens. Some developers deprecate old app versions rather aggressively, which can be problematic if new versions don't run correctly on SailfishOS.
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#Jolla Phone bundles Aurora Store - an application which allows installing applications from Google Play without logging in. This is a key feature as most Android applications are only published in Google Play.
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The native #SailfishOS app selection is nowhere near that of Google or Apple, but is generally good enough for normal productivity and multimedia apps. Many apps have just one developer with limited resources.The quality of apps varies a lot and most of them are quite simple.
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For more details about the Aurora Store look here: https://store.auroraoss.com
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We've used Linux-based phones a long time. Nokia N900 was the first, followed by the original #Jolla Phone in 2013 followed by Sony Xperia phones (X and XA2). These phones had the commercial version of #SailfishOS installed on them.
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The introduction of UEFI Secure Boot and Windows marketplaces were Microsoft's contributions to the so-called "War on general-purpose computing". Fortunately for us Microsoft's all attempts to fully lock down the PC ecosystem have failed.
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#microsoft
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