Show HN: DivestOS, long term support for end-of-life Android devices

• treble_experimentations

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  Notes about tinkering with Android Project Treble

Yeah, this is exactly what GSIs are meant to do - see https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/ for a nice wiki talking about taking advantage of that.

I thought mobian was distributing a GSI to do non-Android on the Android base, but I can't seem to find it if they do that.

Also, bear in mind that this almost intentionally doesn't solve some support problems - any bugs/vulnerabilities in the base layer won't get fixed by GSIs (which is why DivestOS says it explicitly doesn't ship a GSI).

• cve_checker

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The tool https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/cve_checker is fascinating; I've usually seen people attempting to bring needed drivers to a mainline kernel, but backporting security fixes to a vendor kernel does seem like a plausible way to get a lot of the benefit with less work.

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• mull-fenix

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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 (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix), a privacy-focused fork of Firefox similar to LibreWolf

- Hypatia (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/hypatia), a malware scanner that uses ClamAV signatures

- MotionLock (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/motionlock), automatically locks device when it is face down or has not been moved

• hypatia

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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 (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix), a privacy-focused fork of Firefox similar to LibreWolf

- Hypatia (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/hypatia), a malware scanner that uses ClamAV signatures

- MotionLock (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/motionlock), automatically locks device when it is face down or has not been moved

• motionlock

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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 (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix), a privacy-focused fork of Firefox similar to LibreWolf

- Hypatia (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/hypatia), a malware scanner that uses ClamAV signatures

- MotionLock (https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/motionlock), automatically locks device when it is face down or has not been moved

• divestos-build

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hammerhead died on 15.1 because no one could get Bluetooth to reliably work on later versions.

The support is in the form of all the features, the (system) updates, and kernel patches like this: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/blob/mas...

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