In Sydney, New South Wales on Monday 22 January through to Friday 26 January, Linux.conf.au, the Australian Linux conference took place. F-Droid’s Peter Serwylo was there Thursday, 25 Jan, presenting his “F-Droid: The private, secure, free and open app store for Android”. The 45 minutes long talk covers how F-Droid...

Fairphone has taken a big step towards making a fully free Android phone! They already have Fairphone Open, an alternate version of Android that does not include any proprietary apps. The built-in Fairphone Updater makes it really easy to switch a Fairphone away from the Google Android version to Fairphone...

We have started the process of the second security audit of the F-Droid setup. The audit will be conducted by Radically Open Security, which is a natural partner for F-Droid since they share our focus on free software and open processes. Once we receive the results and have addressed any...

Since 2010, the F-Droid community has been working to provide only 100% verified Free Software, and to make apparent all forms of tracking, advertising, and “anti-features” commonly found in apps. F-Droid provides a complete app ecosystem where users are actively notified of tracking and advertising in the apps, and can...

The Janus vulnerability has sprung forth unto the Android world, and we have sprung into action to keep it far away. First off, f-droid.org, guardianproject.info/fdroid and apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid were scanned for possible Janus exploits and none were found. f-droid.org’s greatest protection against malware is the requirement that everything must be built...

Having users run “nightly” builds is a great way to get rapid feedback on current development activities. One key way to get this kind of feedback is to make it as easy as possible for people to install the nightly builds, and to keep updated. The F-Droid tools now let...

October 10th, 10-10, is the perfect day to announce F-Droid 1.0! After 7 years and the last year of intense development, we are ready to call the F-Droid ecosystem ready for prime time. We think that F-Droid is mature enough and ready for all users. With 60+ languages, 100+ contributors,...

Only in 2015, when the government opened the first public WiFi hotspots in the country, did internet access become available to ordinary Cubans. Before that, even though modern mobile phones had already found their way into the country, they were mostly used off-line. Now, all these phones can be connected...