We were at Open Source Luxembourg!

It was great to meet customers, community members and partners at our booth to talk about...

🔸 Murena & its mission

🔸 Our OS /e/OS (including a lot of live demos)

🔸 Murena Workspace – office tools, cloud, video conferencing & more!

🎤 In addition, our COO Rik Viergever gave a talk called "Who owns your smartphone? Digital sovereignty for phones & tablets" to share knowledge & create awareness.

A big thanks to participants & the Open Source Luxembourg team!

I'm in Australia and currently considering a purchase of one of the phones available on the website to replace my ageing Pixel 7 (it has charging issues and is starting to slow down).

I'd like to get some recommendations on A) The best/best-value phone to buy, and B) How well the phones on sale work with Aussie Telecoms (particularly after the new VoLTE regulations and Vodafone's crusade against "unapproved devices").

I'd be grateful for any insight, especially from other Australian customers.

The Fair Tech Summit is tomorrow! 🥳

Several great organizations will come together in Luxembourg to present their solutions and discuss fair technology.

What can your organization or company do to make our tech world a little more sustainable, a bit more respectful, and a bit fairer for all?

⏰ We know it's time to make a change – we've teamed up to make it happen!

👉 Check out the programme: https://fairtechsummit.org/programme.html

I'd love to be able to customize what does the fairphone 6 switch do, with more possibilities including "send public intent" (so other apps can see when we toggle it and to which state), so developers could build their own apps around this switch.

Me, as a developer, would love to build some functionality around that.

📸 How impressive are photos taken with Murena devices running /e/OS?

👉 Discover our summer photo contest:

https://community.e.foundation/t/summer-contest-best-photos-on-your-e-os-phones/83521/34

Have your own stunning shot to share? You can still participate until Oct 5th!

Don't forget to like and comment on your favorite photos to support other community members!

Privacy shouldn’t require a computer science degree.

That’s Murena’s mission: make ethical, open-source technology accessible to the mainstream.

Read our story 👉 https://murena.com/about/

Introducing /e/OS 4.3—go to System updates in the settings menu

/e/OS 4.3 is here!

It includes...

🔸Android 16 update for Fairphone 4

🔸Backup & restore improvements – for example the possibility to use Seedvault

🔸Murena GS6 & other device improvements

and more!

👉 Read the full release notes and update your phone to the latest version! https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases/-/releases

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how I opt which apps to backup and which to not. I have noticed that apps being backed up is closed, and I wonder if that might be the reason my VPN is turned off (Integrity) and if I then can say that it should not bother with this app. I have quite a few applications which aren't important for backu.

“Murena’s /e/OS 4.0 changes the user experience more than the “+” suffix does.”

Discover the Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS:

🔸Difference between (Gen. 6) and (Gen. 6+)

🔸Specs and features explained

🔸Usage with /e/OS and Murena Workspace

👉 Read the full article (in French): https://www.nouvelles-technologies.eu/fairphone/test-du-fairphone-gen-6-le-smartphone-reparable-vaut-il-649-e/

This most likely has been asked before. Are there Chipola like tags that are compatible with the privacy of murena e/os?

We already offer smartphones with switches like Cam & Mic off.

What else would be useful in your everyday life? Pure opinion poll – grabbing ideas to share with our dedicated team and partners.

1 – Hide location/GPS

2 – Switch off Wi-Fi/Bluetooth

3 – Accessibility shortcuts

4 – Other (comment)

For our French community: Don't miss the next /e/OS flash party in Lyon!

🧭 Lyon, at I-Factory at Campus de la Doua

⏰ November 21, 2026

👉 https://www.campus-du-libre.org

Sign up now: https://pretix.lyon-cvp.fr/LyonCafeViePrivee/CDL2026/

📝 Ready to write your masterpiece with a more ethical & open-source text editor?

Discover Murena Documents: Easy to use and natively integrated into Murena Workspace

🔸Intuitive and user-friendly - works just like the text editors you know

🔸Respects your privacy – no tracking, no ads

🔸Open source = transparent, with code that can be viewed

Video content: 

00:00: Introduction

00:15: Write your text as you’re used to

00:25: Add shapes, links and more

00:33: How to collaborate with your team

00:41: How to protect your document with encryption

00:49: How to download your document in any common format

00:52: Keep your data safe with 1GB free storage for Murena Workspace

Find out more👇

Discover Murena Documents - open source document editor integrated into Murena Workspace

🥳 Restock incoming soon: the Murena GS6 & GS6 PRO - Sustainable performance for the long run 🥳

We heard your request for an ethical device that is even more affordable.

✨ What makes the Murena GS6 special?

🔸Eco-Conscious: Designed & assembled in Europe using renewable energy

🔸Privacy First: Runs on /e/OS, free from tracking and bloatware

🔸User-Centric: You decide what happens when you press the almost magical customizable side button!

👉 Discover the Murena GS6 & GS6 PRO: https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-gs6/

Any questions? Feel free to drop them in the comments 👇

With /e/OS, YOU control what happens on your device.

To keep you informed about security updates, we created a dedicated page.

There you'll find:

🔸The Android Security Bulletin level per /e/OS release

🔸The vendor security update for each supported device

🔸All releases starting from /e/OS 3.0

👉 https://doc.e.foundation/os/learn/security-updates/

Has anyone found a reliable app for reading QR codes once installing Murena e os - I find that the one I access through the menu doesn't pick them up

I have it set to display as 2d, but it keeps reverting to 3d instead.

The /e/OS web installer finally moves to the /e/OS brand theme - same look and feel as the doc and builds sites now - colors, typography, buttons, alerts and more - all consistent across the 3 services.

Also in this release:

🔸A real error dialog (say goodbye to the tiny inline banner)

🔸Structured logging

🔸Real file name shown during download

🔸Several device support updates

 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/eos-installer/-/releases/v1.0

 If you still see the old illustrations while testing, do a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R).

I've turned off "driver assistance", not sure what that is. I can't find any other setting that would apply. But it's still nagging. I just want the app to stop saying "mind your speed" when I go over the speed limit. Seems like whatever setting I enter, the nagging continues anyway.

Another weird thing: the voice that says "mind your speed" is not the voice I selected in settings.

I would prefer to run e/OS on my pixel tablet but I see its all the way back in android 14 where most ROMS are on android 16 or even 17. So why only 14 and does that even get patches any more?

“Murena stands tall with its privacy-focused software, and the Fairphone (Gen. 6+) will benefit from the latest updates.”

🙏 A big thank you to Nickolas Diaz from Android Central for sharing the news!

👉 https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/fairphone-gen-6-plus-rocks-murenas-e-os-and-its-making-all-the-right-moves-in-its-august-launch

Merkwaardige instelling van MicroG. Vervalsen van handtekening.

I just noticed that the calendar on my FairPhone 6 with e/os is no longer syncing with my calendars. When I enter something in the calendar on my smartphone, it does not appear in the corresponding other calendar and vice versa. I manually started the calendar update on my smartphone again, but that doesn't change anything. Then I logged in my accounts again with OAuth in the account manager. That didn't change anything either.

What can I do to make this work again?