Dear Debian,

Now that Tails (which is based on Debian) and the Tor Project have merged, I sent the Tor Project an email (see below), pointing out that many people, for many years, have been hoping and waiting for Tails to work on mobile phones, and asking them to use
their resources to make it happen. They pointed me to old Tails developer discussions which basically said they can't do it because Debian doesn't support phones well enough.

As I understand, Tails used to be based on Ubuntu, and they switched to Debian because of the higher quality of its releases (ie, "it's ready when it's ready", not "it's ready on a certain date"). However, Ubuntu is developing a mobile version, and seems
to understand that people want convergence between their desktop, laptop, and phone (ie, one small but powerful device which does everything).

Please work on making that kind of convergence possible for OSes which are based directly on Debian.

Best regards



-------- Original Message --------
On 07/10/2024 18:16, ebanam via RT <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,
Thanks for reaching out but, unfortunately, Tails support for mobile phones is
not in the works and we don't have a plan to support it. For some background
on this please see these articles on the bug tracker,
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/6064
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/handheld

cheers,

--

ebanam

Community Team, The Tor Project



On Fri Oct 04 18:11:35 2024, [email protected] wrote:

Dear Tor Project,

Many people have been waiting many years for a version of Tails that works on mobile phones. Please use your resources to make that happen.

Best regards

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You can already Install and use Debian on mobile phones: <https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/>

در ۰۰:۱۹:۱۹ +00:00:00 روز پنجشنبه، ۲۴ اكتبر
۲۴ at ۰۰:۱۹:۱۹ +00:00:00, [email protected] نوشته
بود:

Dear Debian,

Now that Tails (which is based on Debian) and the Tor Project have
merged, I sent the Tor Project an email (see below), pointing out
that many people, for many years, have been hoping and waiting for
Tails to work on mobile phones, and asking them to use their
resources to make it happen. They pointed me to old Tails developer discussions which basically said they can't do it because Debian
doesn't support phones well enough.

As I understand, Tails used to be based on Ubuntu, and they switched
to Debian because of the higher quality of its releases (ie, "it's
ready when it's ready", not "it's ready on a certain date"). However,
Ubuntu is developing a mobile version, and seems to understand that
people want convergence between their desktop, laptop, and phone (ie,
one small but powerful device which does everything).

Please work on making that kind of convergence possible for OSes
which are based directly on Debian.

Best regards

-------- Original Message --------
On 07/10/2024 18:16, ebanam via RT <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hello,
Thanks for reaching out but, unfortunately, Tails support for
mobile phones is
not in the works and we don't have a plan to support it. For some
background
on this please see these articles on the bug tracker,
<https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/6064>
<https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/handheld>

cheers,

--

ebanam

Community Team, The Tor Project



On Fri Oct 04 18:11:35 2024, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Tor Project,

> Many people have been waiting many years for a version of Tails
that works on mobile phones. Please use your resources to make that
happen.

> Best regards

<div id="geary-body" dir="auto"><div>You can already Install and use Debian on mobile phones:&nbsp;<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/">https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/</a></div></div><div id="geary-quote" dir="auto"><br>در ۰۰:۱۹:۱۹ +00:00:00
روز پنجشنبه، ۲۴ اكتبر ۲۴ at ۰۰:۱۹:۱۹ +00:00:00, [email protected] نوشته بود:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: break-spaces;">Dear Debian,

Now that Tails (which is based on Debian) and the Tor Project have merged, I sent the Tor Project an email (see below), pointing out that many people, for many years, have been hoping and waiting for Tails to work on mobile phones, and asking them to use
their resources to make it happen. They pointed me to old Tails developer discussions which basically said they can't do it because Debian doesn't support phones well enough.

As I understand, Tails used to be based on Ubuntu, and they switched to Debian because of the higher quality of its releases (ie, "it's ready when it's ready", not "it's ready on a certain date"). However, Ubuntu is developing a mobile version, and seems
to understand that people want convergence between their desktop, laptop, and phone (ie, one small but powerful device which does everything).

Please work on making that kind of convergence possible for OSes which are based directly on Debian.

Best regards



-------- Original Message --------
On 07/10/2024 18:16, ebanam via RT &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:

<blockquote> Hello,
Thanks for reaching out but, unfortunately, Tails support for mobile phones is
not in the works and we don't have a plan to support it. For some background
on this please see these articles on the bug tracker,
<a href="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/6064">https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/6064</a>
<a href="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/handheld">https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/handheld</a>

cheers,

--

ebanam

Community Team, The Tor Project



On Fri Oct 04 18:11:35 2024, <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> wrote:

&gt; Dear Tor Project,

&gt; Many people have been waiting many years for a version of Tails that works on mobile phones. Please use your resources to make that happen.

&gt; Best regards



</blockquote>
</div></blockquote></div>

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On 2024-10-24 00:19:19 +0000 (+0000), [email protected] wrote:
[...]

Please work on making that kind of convergence possible for OSes
which are based directly on Debian.

[...]

I personally use a Purism Librem 5 phone which runs PureOS based
directly on Debian, for example.
--
Jeremy Stanley

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