Sailfish OS 4.0.1.48 on the PinePhone
Channel: LINMOBnet
Date: 2021-03-05

In this video I am taking another look at Sailfish OS, the nice, mature and fast Linux Phone OS that unfortunately has some proprietary UI components.

This is version 4.0.1.48. To learn about all its features, look at the release notes: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-koli-4-0-1/4542

To install it, you need to jump through some hoops currently:

Install it as described on https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_Software_Releases#Sailfish_OS, and then set a root password as shown in the end  of the video. After this, open the terminal app and enter the following commands:

devel-su
ssu re 4.0.1.48
ssu ur
zypper ref
zypper dup

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Disclosure: I am a co-host on the bi-weekly PineTalk Podcast (https://www.pine64.org/pinetalk), a PINE64 community podcast. This is pro-bono community work and I try my best to make sure that this work does not affect my view on the PINE64 products or competing Linux Phones in any way.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Browser
03:56 App Isolation using Firejail
04:22 Storeman
05:03 Email app
06:38 Contrac COVID19 exposure notification
07:45 Phone calls work
08:16 Mobile data works
08:40 How to get this installed
09:16 Conclusions
09:40 Goodbye and thanks for watching