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#DivestOS

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I hope some group will fork #DivestOS.

We're in 2025 and the only halfway acceptable OS for a popular device designed to handle private data is / was a single-maintainer project.

Society should get its priorities right ...

If like me you don't like to run Chrome on Android, meet #Ironfox[1], a great project that continues the legacy of the now defunct #Mull[2] by #DivestOS.

Ironfox enables features upstreamed by the #Tor uplift project and preferences from the `arkenfox-user.js` project.

Repo to be added to F-droid/NeoStore: fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/r

[1]: gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
[2]: divestos.org/pages/our_apps#mu

Random thought, but since #DivestOS has shut down, what happens to #Hypatia antivirus? Did it have other contributors outside of that project? Will they keep developing it? All the "donate" links on its GitHub go to the Divest page, but I'm not sure how independent Hypatia is or isn't. I use #CalyxOS and Hypatia is included or endorsed by them, so I'm sort of curious.

Does anyone know why #DivestOS is still based on Android 13? Since it is forked from LOS it should have been upgraded some time ago... Wondering about the security implications.

(I don't know if @divested is regularly checking this place. I am aware he is basically running a one man show so no pressure, just trying to understand.)

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> Does it have the same policy as F-Droid of only shipping apps under licenses that respect our software freedoms?

Hmm, no response from the DivestOS maintainer ( @divested), so I'll take that as a no. If I didn't care about that, I'd just use the @IzzyOnDroid repo. No offence untended to the workers of either project, we just have different priorities.

More motivation to get a fresh OS working on my PinePhone ...

#DivestOS #SoftwareFreedom #PinePhone

@cantences @PINE64