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Does this support GrapheneOS's Google Services Framework compatibility layer? And why not fork GrapheneOS instead of Lineage?
Are there any other projects that are using Graphene's Play Services? My ideal OS is basically Lineage with those patches applied.
Unless these devices have the ability to update their binary OEM blobs then these cannot be considered secure. This is why alternative OSs like GrapheneOS end their support when the Google Pixel is EOL. If you want long term support buy an iPhone or an Android phone that guarantees at least 5 years of security updates.
Security isn't everything. Sometimes just having a working device you can use to access information takes priority. Not everyone can buy a device.
But if you have an EOL device, DivestOS seems to be an amazing alternative to just staying on the stock firmware that is not going to get any updates at all.
So the idea is you be able to easily upgrade or even multiboot different android or linux images if you wish, without having to recompile for every device.
Any chances to see something similar to install Linux images (native, no chroots) to old Android tablets over the original OS? Some hardware wouldn't be supported, but I wouldn't mind not having for example video acceleration, audio and/or modem, if I could use an old tablet as a IoT screen or to show graphs from sensor data, etc. Having a full OS, hence the ability to use multiple programming languages, libraries, e…
Sounds like you want https://postmarketos.org/ or https://mobian-project.org/ ?
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Are there any other projects that are using Graphene's Play Services? My ideal OS is basically Lineage with those patches applied.
Yes, ProtonAOSP: https://protonaosp.org/
Could there be a chance for splitting android into two half? One for per device low level initialization and one for a shared image for all android devices? So the idea is you be able to easily upgrade or even multiboot different android or linux images if you wish, without having to recompile for every device.
I don't know how much of a success it has been, and I don't think it has been used to multiboot a phone or to boot a more standard Linux.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes...
The biggest issue for long term cell phone support is, even if we get an OS with a 10-year security update timeline like Rocky Linux, will the phone itself be able to make calls on whatever cellular networks exist 10 years from now? I have a number of 3G phones I bought as recently as 2018 which became paperweights in 2021 when all of the cellular telcos in the United States stopped supporting 3G, forcing me to update to a 5G phone. Is 5G going to still work in 10 years? Or are the telcos going to continue to convert perfectly good phones in to landfill?
As someone who has a 15-year-old laptop which is still a perfectly good Linux server (its screen went out two years ago, but it was a perfectly good desktop computer until then), it’s annoying seeing phones I bought less than six years ago be useless on today’s cellular networks.
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Sounds like you want https://postmarketos.org/ or https://mobian-project.org/ ?
I'm aware of PostmarketOS, but unfortunately not many tablets are supported; I'm not interested in phones also due to their too small screen.
Where does a lay-consumers even start? Do I buy a used, but well supported (by alt OSes) phone? Which one would that be? Do I attempt to use my existing phone?
Unless these devices have the ability to update their binary OEM blobs then these cannot be considered secure. This is why alternative OSs like GrapheneOS end their support when the Google Pixel is EOL. If you want long term support buy an iPhone or an Android phone that guarantees at least 5 years of security updates.
For example checkm8 back in 2019.