DivestOS
Infrastructure
custom android os distribution
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
11 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 6 for, 3 againstExecution: 3 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Supports many old devices with monthly updates across seven Android versions
From 1 comment
What are the alternatives / competitors to this ?
iamgopal on HN
Useful FOSS apps like Mull and Hypatia
From 1 comment
DivestOS also develops a collection of useful FOSS apps that can be installed on any Android device. These apps are available on F-Droid. Highlights include: - Mull…
commoner on HN
Objections
Supports only a limited set of devices
From 2 comments
Looks like it only supports a few devices (Google Pixel, some OnePlus and Samsung). As long as these OSs don't support a majority of the devices out there, they will not really…
seu on HNI went to the site and failed to understand what’s different from other Android distros to make the general claim of “support for EOL Android devices”. Isn’t it the same as…
culopatin on HN
Security claims questioned due to proprietary binary blobs
From 2 comments
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…
kernal on HNThat makes it even worse. They apparently do not even try to make it secure and willingly exclude some patches. Reminds me of "security by management risk acceptance"
summm on HN
Requests
Support for Samsung devices
From 2 comments
I wish there would be support for Samsung devices (S10 and newer).
t0bia_s on HNIs there any similar project for the galaxy s9/s10 north american versions with locked bootloaders? It's infuriating Samsung gets away with this.
zeagle on HN
Questions
How does it differ from LineageOS
From 1 comment
I went to the site and failed to understand what’s different from other Android distros to make the general claim of “support for EOL Android devices”. Isn’t it the same as…
culopatin on HN
Does it support GrapheneOS compatibility layer
From 1 comment
Does this support GrapheneOS's Google Services Framework compatibility layer? And why not fork GrapheneOS instead of Lineage?
craftkiller on HN
Alternatives named
GrapheneOS
From 1 comment
For new/supported devices I strongly recommend GrapheneOS. The other projects who support some of these older devices have numerous issues as noted here:…
SubzeroCarnage on HN
postmarketOS
From 1 comment
Checkout the postmarketOS project, they do exactly that!
SubzeroCarnage on HN
CalyxOS
From 1 comment
There is also CalyxOS
jacooper on HN