It's funny, I often hear, for the first time, about interesting projects just as they are shutting down. I wish there was some kind of pre-emptive news service that would tell me about them BEFORE they shutdown! Like maybe some kind of quantum computer internet thing that lets you time travel but just via the web browser.
I used Divest OS on an old phone for a while. It was really good. I later replaced it for Lineage OS, because I needed a few specific apps that needed Google services, unfortunately.<p>It was awesome to breathe life into old devices of you don't need Google services on them. Kinda sad to see it ending.
RIP DivestOS, truly a top-tier project.<p>Not just the best alternative to GrapheneOS for non-pixel devices, but also a suite of other apps such as Mull, an Android Firefox fork.<p>This really was a passion project and SkewedZeppelin deserves much respect for the monumental amount of quality work that was involved in this, at massive personal cost. Wish him the best for the future and whatever else he does next.<p>Thanks for the 3 years of faultless updates. Not sure who else could fill those boots to be honest.
Much of the older hardware that has working DivestOS builds could potentially be supported by postmarketOS or similar projects. Hopefully the code bases and whatever else is needed to make these builds work can get safely archived before the project shuts down for good.[0] Of course it would take a lot of work to try and get the hardware working under a modern kernel w/ no userspace blobs, etc. but it's worth leaving that possibility open if at all possible.<p>[0] AIUI, we don't even have a proper list of what hardware was supported by the older CyanogenMod releases that were replaced by LineageOS. (You can find archived builds from the old CyanogenMod on archive.org etc. but the state of completeness is quite unclear.) It's worth trying to avoid a similar outcome here.
I want a (preferably open source) android phone without spam. I'd pay a healthy amount for it. I don't want to flash roms or do anything like that.<p>Anyone tried the Fairphone? How is it for notification spam?
This is led by one person, but with a large community, yet one person can just shut down everything, including Web forums and chat rooms?<p>Is the situation that no one else is willing to sustain it? Or no one else trustworthy?<p>Also, is there any funds left over?
<a href="https://divestos.org/pages/about" rel="nofollow">https://divestos.org/pages/about</a>
<a href="https://divestos.org/pages/faq" rel="nofollow">https://divestos.org/pages/faq</a><p>“DivestOS is a full-time passion project (not a company) maintained solely by Tavi since 2014. It has many goals, but primarily: prolonging the life-span of discontinued devices, enhancing user privacy, and providing a modest increase of security where/when possible.”