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Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.
by tejohnso 8y ago
Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.
- craftyguy 8y agoWorse, it's forked from an old version of LineageOS that will be deprecated/unsupported once 16.0 is out.
- cmurf 8y agoAre they skipping 15 for a bunch of phones? I'm on a 2015 Motorola phone that still gets weekly 14.1 updates, and I kinda wonder if it's just EOL even for Lineage.
- subway 8y agoIt's probably EOL. Generally speaking you still depend on the device manufacturer to ship a compatible vendor partition in order to run a given version of LineageOS. This means that if your device doesn't have an official version of Android 8, then it will never be able to run LineageOS 15.
- craftyguy 8y ago> Are they skipping 15 for a bunch of phones? If your device doesn't already support 15, then it's highly unlikely that it will ever seen an official release with 15, or 16, or anything >14.1.
- cecja 8y agoThat's just bullshit there are always phones getting late support for newer releases sometimes even over 1 1/2 year later. Don't spread lies like this.
- petecox 8y agoI wouldn't call it a hard fork, more a downstream derivative. In a similar way, Ubuntu rebases itself on debian unstable every 6 months or so. That is to say Duval based his product on whichever LineageOS release was 'current' at the time but plans to sync to the next available release when his next development cycle allows (which is Oreo, currently).
- remir 8y agoSmartphones are heavily tied to services. I think their goal is to create services that respect privacy and integrate them with their fork of Lineage. In other words, they're making the complete package and they plan to target average people.
- remir 8y agoServices is the thing /e/ is also trying to solve. They plan to make the complete package. For the tech savvy, you'll be able to install those services on your own server.