Post #704273

2026-03-17 15:33 UTC

New blog post introducing the WIP Duranium project (immutable postmarketOS), some of its major features, and explaining why some design decisions were made. :blobcatthink: &gt; Either the new image works, or the system falls back to the previous one automatically. No partially-applied state. No debugging audio when you need to make a phone call and no fussing with a broken web browser when you just want to doomscroll cat photos. It also means developers can reproduce the exact state of a user&#39;s device, making it much easier to track down and fix issues. https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/17/introducing-duranium/ #linuxmobile #postmarketos #duranium

Replies (8)

@dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-17 15:49

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems perhaps the project logo can be a durian

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@YaLTeR@mastodon.online 2026-03-17 16:04

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems how does "No debugging audio when you need to make a phone call and no fussing with a broken web browser" follow from "the system boots successfully"? The system may boot successfully with a broken audio and/or a broken web browser. I'm curious and didn't find it in the blog post

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@jfred@jawns.club 2026-03-17 17:46

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems Interesting! I have a FP5 that I'm not currently daily driving and I see there's an image for it, so might need to give it a try I'm curious if it would be possible to run Guix on it... the docs say there's nothing stopping you from running Nix on it but Guix like Nix requires a writable store dir. Going to have to dig into this some more later

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@Oleksii@social.linux.pizza 2026-03-17 20:01

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems can i flush it via web flusher?

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@kersnazzle@mastodon.social 2026-03-25 10:24

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems @craftyguy@freeradical.zone I just got round to reading this properly and found it really interesting. I particularly like the link off to the design document which is an excellent piece of documentation. Not going to pretend I understand it all but that's on me 😀

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@atna@eldritch.cafe 2026-03-26 14:59

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems is there a guide to go from stock android fairphone 5 without unlocked bootloader to duranium? i tried to do it by combining the wiki pages of the fp5 and trying to install regular pm edge first but even while using what i assumed to be a safe way to do it using ubports, i bricked my phone in the process (apparently very easy to do on fairphone 5) i‘d love to try again but it’s not really sustainable to send the phone to france for repair again if i brick it again, so i would benefit greatly from one install guide from start to finish

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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2026-03-27 17:04

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems Ah, Duranium implies solidity, but it's based on AI slop. https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3 No thanks. "Vibanium"

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@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org 2026-04-27 04:13

@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems @Techwizz@fosstodon.org is this what you were talking about

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