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Nura (formerly postmarketOS): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

postmarketOS is a free operating system for smartphones based on Alpine Linux. Since September 2026 the project has been called Nura. It supports several user interfaces, including GNOME, KDE, Phosh and Sxmo. The project aims to give smartphones a ten-year lifecycle and to run the mainline Linux kernel on all phones instead of outdated Android-specific kernels. It also aims to support Android apps through Waydroid. The system is installed as an image on supported devices and is intended for people and organisations that want to manage their phone themselves.

The software is open source and developed by a community. The source code has moved from GitHub to a GitLab instance and later to the project's own server. Because the operating system runs locally on the device and requires no supplier service, a European organisation keeps control over updates and data. Older references to the name postmarketOS remain in use for the time being.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026
Headquarters
AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Desktop OS
Type
Product
Website
nura.eco ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Nura (formerly postmarketOS)

The European alternatives to Nura (formerly postmarketOS) come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Nura (formerly postmarketOS)

Nura (formerly postmarketOS) is headquartered in AT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Nura (formerly postmarketOS) scores best on data residency.

Nura (formerly postmarketOS) is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Nura (formerly postmarketOS) together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Nura (formerly postmarketOS)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Nura (formerly postmarketOS) include Alpine Linux, Devuan and /e/OS. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Nura (formerly postmarketOS)?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Nura (formerly postmarketOS) include Alpine Linux, Devuan, /e/OS, EndeavourOS, KDE neon, Linux Mint, Mageia and Manjaro. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Nura (formerly postmarketOS) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Nura (formerly postmarketOS) is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Nura (formerly postmarketOS) an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

security.txt
nura.eco/.well-known/security.txt
Supported versions
wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=Releases

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Desktop OS

Desktop OS: Desktop operating system — daily work platform. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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