Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS

• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  By that logic you should call most web browsers Konqueror, because ultimately they all forked from it.

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  • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in the end, everything is just a fork of fortran

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Firefox us not.

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Konqueror? KDE’s browser?

    I think you meant to say Mosaic.

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mint still takes upstream changes from Ubuntu though right?

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And Google has been taking steps to make Graphene development impossible over the past few years. It’s going to be gone eventually.

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  • lucario_owo@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google is not targeting graphene, google is targeting custom roms in general. Graphene isn’t the only project impacted by them.

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That… Doesn’t affect my point at all.

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