DivestOS Shut down!?!?
DivestOS Shut down!?!?
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?
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
Oh good. I was hoping it was a "moving on" reason, as opposed to a catastrophic one. Thanks for settling my nerves lol
I didn't either.
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
Fennec obviously
Not obviously. Fennec doesn't have all the same privacy protections that Mull did. I think Tor is the only browser left that has everything I want but I don't want to use Tor for general purpose browsing.
I know it's a lot of hard work but I hope a group of people pick this project up.
R.I.P. DivertOS.
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.
DivestOS was a fork of it for good reasons. LineageOS doesn't offer the same privacy or security features Divest had in the first place. https://divestos.org/index.html
Check out calyxOS, only tricky part is that it's mostly for pixels.
For new pixels
No, I'm running it on my pixel 3 right now.