/e/OS

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A community about the /e/ Operating System developed by e Foundation.

/e/OS is a degoogled version of Android. It aims to be a good balance between privacy and usability. Forked from Lineage OS.

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De-Googled /e/OS rolls out version 2, brings Android Auto support, UI and privacy enhancements (liliputing.com)

submitted 6 months ago by grid11@lemy.nl to c/e_os@lemmy.world

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to give this a go. I've got a Fairphone 5 which I've increasingly been using with non-Google services. Something I don't understand is that /e/OS is based on LineageOS, but my phone isn't supported by Lineage. I wish it was; that'd be a no-brainer.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In general, /e/OS is based on LOS, but the project decides which devices it supports.

https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/support

/e/OS is not dependent on LineageOS in deciding which devices to support or stop supporting. We already have several devices which are not on the LineageOS supported list. We plan to port more devices to work with /e/OS code.

Maybe, to make things work, /e/OS team had direct help from Fairphone, as their OS is also somehow 'official', while LOS did not and still struggles.