This is wild because I had never heard of this news anywhere. R.I.P. DivestOS, my favorite mobile OS. Anyone know of a project with a similiar goal of deblobbing android?
Yup! I didn’t use much of their software but I did like Mull. I’m currently mull-ing over what browser to use next.
Woah, I never knew Hypatia is part of the Divest team. Here I thought I was unaffected by the shutdown… I wonder if they’ll keep the av updates coming, since they are provided by ClamAV.
Edit: Looks like the script that converts clamav to hypatia compatible packages is public, I’m tempted to run it myself and host the files on my own server. That way I can just set the database override link within the app to my domain and done.
https://codeberg.org/divested-mobile/hypatia/src/branch/stable/scripts/Main.java
EDiT: The following is eroneous, Tavi isn’t the only dev and the project is mainly maintained by two others as the replies to this comment say.
Fennec on fdroid was by the same dev, so dead too.
GrapheneOS is a similar philosophy as divest, remove as much risk surface as possible. Only pixel phones getting security firmware updates are supported though
yeah for ancient pixel users like me it’s impossible to get modern android… I’m using lineage for now and i’ll wait to see how this plays out.
https://grapheneos.org/build#build-targets
you could always build GOS yourself and use the older targets (and get the vendor files from the aosp)
It’s more elbow grease, but its not too much
I mean… I upgrade every ~2/3 years.
But only during sales and only with boosted trade ins.
This year I got two 9s for ~$150 with boosted trade ins for my 7pro/8pro and holiday sale.
There’s even a
10% off referral:
REF-KLO02BCXE32GOJVRD02QC2J
And technically Graphene has extended legacy support for:
4a,4,4XL,5a&5
Cheaper than worrying about battery replacement for old crusty pixles >.>
I don’t have any opinion about what phone you want to have. Be happy.
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
I’m satisfying the OPs question, with real actionable data. I’m not running around down voting people because they like things I don’t like.
However if you, or someone with your same attitude, wants to pick up the DivestOS repos and builds, I will applaud and cheer!
I know it’s a lot of hard work but I hope a group of people pick this project up.
R.I.P. DivertOS.
So, I’ve been using their Mull browser for a good while now. What’s a good replacement now that it’s dead?
EDiT: The following is eroneous, Tavi isn’t the only dev and the project is mainly maintained by two others as the replies to this comment say.
Fennec on fdroid is dead too, same dev…
