If anyone from this project is reading this: please just contribute to the upstream projects your are building off of.<p>><i>We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems.</i><p>No, the LineageOS team builds them, then you rebrand them. If you want to actually make a difference, contribute your changes directly to the LineageOS trees. Device support is paramount for custom ROMs and LineageOS already has an amazing amount of devices. All this will do is fragment the ecosystem.<p>><i>default email client (forked from K9-mail)</i><p>Please no. Just contribute to K9 directly. I get that you want to brand it to fit with your whole scheme, but you have the ability to actually improve the open source Android ecosystem.<p>><i>application repository: an independent alternative place where you will be able to choose from thousands of applications, including all well-known applications</i><p>FDroid. You're describing FDroid. Again, there is a good application out their already, why would you make your own? Oh, it's so you can add "<i>an original mechanism for users to score applications</i>". Why can't you add that to FDroid and help everyone out?<p>My main criticism boils down to this: why reinvent the wheel?
This article has a good summary, <a href="http://techpp.com/2018/06/28/eelo-profile-google-free-android/amp/" rel="nofollow">http://techpp.com/2018/06/28/eelo-profile-google-free-androi...</a><p><i>"Duval’s team made use of LineageOS ... [which] doesn’t ship with any Google apps ... To counter that, Eelo will come preloaded with a handful of services you would need out of the box such as an email client, a productivity suite for accessing documents, spreadsheets, a search engine that won’t track its users, and more. The one application which is being a bottleneck for Eelo’s potential success is navigation ...<p>Eelo will have a repository of both open-source as well as other Android apps. To ensure users don’t install one of the latter and ruin the purpose of using a privacy-focused operating system, each app in Eelo’s store will have a security score. Through that users can be more informed about how well a particular app treats personal data and based on that, decide whether they’d want to install it."</i>
Why did this project choose such an unsearchable name and cripple its own acceptability? Can't search for /e/, can't search for 'e', 'e os' refers to some entirely different OS...
Site seems down, here's the archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180714103142/https://e.foundation/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20180714103142/https://e.foundat...</a><p>And a non-scroll hijack full page screenshot: <a href="https://my.mixtape.moe/nrdfgf.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://my.mixtape.moe/nrdfgf.jpg</a>
Not trying to be a buzzkill, but how (from what I can see from the Google cache), is this different than LineageOS without Google Apps? Or the recently mentioned CopperheadOS which already has ROMs available and supports commercially available devices..? <a href="https://copperhead.co/android/" rel="nofollow">https://copperhead.co/android/</a>
At first I thought this was a too-subtle satire of other projects that failed to get traction. But I guess this is an actual project with branding that almost feels like satire?
First thoughts: the branding looks like it came out of a PC Magazine from 1995. Also I’m put off with the constant donation requests and all I’ve seen thus far is a bad web site. Release something first, anything, then ask for money and fire your graphics designer and whoever is doing ya’ll marketing.
/e/, the phone for people who want to hide their ecchi, but let people know that they're into 2d.<p>If you don't know, /e/ is 4chan's ecchi board. Ecchi is softcore japanese cartoon porn.
Clarification request: Is this really a new privacy-enabled operating system, or is it yet another attempt to convert Android into a privacy-enabled operating system?
How is this better/different from <a href="https://lineage.microg.org/" rel="nofollow">https://lineage.microg.org/</a> ?
Many have tried and failed. I salute the attempt but I would take a bet against it. I have tried to get access to high end radios that don't have strange carrier modes and haven't found them. A usb modem goes a long way in terms of isolating things but the new tricks are way smarter than the old.
So, here's a project that wants to 100% focus on privacy (according to their crowdfunding campaign).<p>The first task they start with?<p>Write a new launcher, of course!
I wish people stopped messing around with scroll.. This website is a pain to navigate with javascript enabled and cannot be navigated at all with javascript disabled (overflow hidden, need to hack css too to make it bearable).<p>To see such poor UX on the website of someone developing an OS is a red flag for me.