This is wild because I had never heard of this news anywhere. R.I.P. DivestOS, my favorite mobile OS. Anyone know of a project with a similiar goal of deblobbing android?
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Yup! I didn’t use much of their software but I did like Mull. I’m currently mull-ing over what browser to use next.
I loved Hypatia, its the only floss antivirus for android
I know it’s a lot of hard work but I hope a group of people pick this project up.
R.I.P. DivertOS.
GrapheneOS is a similar philosophy as divest, remove as much risk surface as possible. Only pixel phones getting security firmware updates are supported though
yeah for ancient pixel users like me it’s impossible to get modern android… I’m using lineage for now and i’ll wait to see how this plays out.
https://grapheneos.org/build#build-targets
you could always build GOS yourself and use the older targets (and get the vendor files from the aosp)
It’s more elbow grease, but its not too much
I mean… I upgrade every ~2/3 years.
But only during sales and only with boosted trade ins.
This year I got two 9s for ~$150 with boosted trade ins for my 7pro/8pro and holiday sale.
There’s even a
10% off referral:
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And technically Graphene has extended legacy support for:
4a,4,4XL,5a&5Cheaper than worrying about battery replacement for old crusty pixles >.>
I’m using lineageOS. You can choose whether to add Gapps (google bundle) to it. By default there’s no google anything. Most devices officially supported by the project work great from what I’ve seen. It makes old phones faster in some cases.
IMO it doesn’t go far enough with deblobbing and removing nonfree software, but for the time being i’ll switch to it. Hope someone continues this project.
So, I’ve been using their Mull browser for a good while now. What’s a good replacement now that it’s dead?
I didn’t see a reason. Did Tavi give one and I missed it?
I posted this comment elsewhere:
In case anyone is curious as to why, here’s a direct quote from them (Tavi) in Fairphone forum:
As mentioned, it is the 10 year anniversary. That is a long time and I need to move onto other projects in life.
They also have this for those looking to replace Mull: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
