They just announced a partnership with Motorola.
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wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ironically the fork that only runs on the phones made by the company that also makes Android
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I was going to say “isn’t Motorola owned by Google though?”, but then I looked it up. They’re owned by Lenovo. But they were owned by Google! In 2014, which is 12 years ago and I’m going to go crumble to dust now…
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Lenovo still not a good company but I likemy Motorola phone
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Isn’t there also Jolla? Iirc they run on Linux.
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah but sailfish isn’t open source, and it’s not really available North America.
lucario_owo@pawb.social 1 month ago
It’s a fork and always will, it’s still android. I don’t get why people refer to it as a different project. It’s the same project with tweaks.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I get what you are saying. But the difference is more akin to Mint and Ubuntu. Where one started as a fork of the other, which itself was a fork of something else, but at this point in time both are so different from their original source material that they’re all three just considered different distributions of the same thing.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian all still rely on the Linux kernel, though. A better comparison might be how LineageOS is technically a fork of the dead CyanogenMod project, but even before the latter fully imploded was different enough to be its own thing.
Both of them still relied on the existence of AOSP though, for new features, bug fixes, hardware support, certain core functionality, etc. AOSP is a lot bigger than just the Linux kernel, and because of the tighter coupling between hardware and software on mobile devices, there’s a whole other discussion about creating a real non-Android OS for them, but I think that’s a closer parallel.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Good old Cyanogen, my 10yo found my old nexus one in a draw, charged it up and turned it on…CyanogenMod boot screen, nice.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Mint still takes upstream changes from Ubuntu though right?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 month ago
And Google has been taking steps to make Graphene development impossible over the past few years. It’s going to be gone eventually.
lucario_owo@pawb.social 1 month ago
Google is not targeting graphene, google is targeting custom roms in general. Graphene isn’t the only project impacted by them.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 month ago
That… Doesn’t affect my point at all.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GrapheneOS = Android Open Source Project (AOSP) + Open Source Tweaks
Android™ (Google licensed) = Android Open Source Project (AOSP) + Different Commercial Tweaks
The base is the same, the OS is not. Just like Windows 11 is not Windows NT, but the base is the same.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Except that Windows 11 is Windows NT.
They quit using the NT number when they switched from waterfall to “agile” releases. But 10 beta had an official release version of 6.4 and then they switched that to 10.0 which they have left alone since for 11 and the latest Server editions.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
By that logic you should call most web browsers Konqueror, because ultimately they all forked from it.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Konqueror? KDE’s browser?
I think you meant to say Mosaic.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve phrased myself wrong, I mean that most of them are ultimately based on Konqueror (including WebKit and Chromium-based browsers). Firefox of course doesn’t have much to do with Konqueror.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Firefox us not.
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
in the end, everything is just a fork of fortran