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The linux phone tag on WindowsForum.com covers community discussion of experimental phone operating systems built on Linux rather than on Microsoft's platform. The tagged content looks at projects such as ztOS, a fan-made OS that recreates the look and motion of Windows Phone 8.1 while running on Arch Linux ARM and mainline Linux, complete with its own apps, updater and an SDK for Python and Qt development. Coverage notes the practical limits of these efforts, including narrow hardware support for a single Samsung handset and alpha-stage status that makes them suitable mainly for tinkerers rather than everyday users.
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    ztOS Brings a Windows Phone 8.1-Style Linux OS to the Galaxy S9—But It’s Alpha Only

    ztOS is a fan-made phone operating system that copies the look of Windows Phone 8.1. It runs on one specific Samsung handset, and it is a Linux project rather than a revival of Microsoft's platform. It is also an alpha, so it is for tinkerers only. What ztOS actually is ztOS is a phone OS built...