EskeRahn 5,460 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Just saw this on a new allegedly very clean AOSP fork BharOS. Would be interesting, if some of the hardware related stuff made for LineeageOS for Pro1/Pro1X could be reused.... So we could have that too - I bet that at the least some of the old Blackberry users would be highly interested.EDIT: See below, most likely merely political stunt... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean McCreary 328 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 BharOS seems like a student project that got wrapped into a political stunt. For example The Indian Express includes a link to the announcement that calls it a step towards "Atmanirbhar Bharat", a political slogan from Narendra Modi. But on a completely practical level, it won't work at all with Google apps, you can't download it for any device, and it may only support one or more Google Pixel phones when you can. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EskeRahn 5,460 Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 45 minutes ago, Sean McCreary said: But on a completely practical level, it won't work at all with Google apps, you can't download it for any device, and it may only support one or more Google Pixel phones when you can. Thanks for the info, perhaps I should have guessed from the name that it was a fishy political stunt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
claude0001 1,341 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) When you are worried about privacy, the single most important step is to get away from manufacturer-taintedbranded ROMs, Google Apps, and the Play Store. A publication demonstrating that by network analysis of phones' upstream traffic has actually been posted here before. Privacy-wise, you can essentially get on-par with all those self-proclaimed "privacy-first" OS's by simply installing LineageOS without Gapps and using F-Droid for your app needs. Sounds hard, and few do this, I know. On the other hand, If you think you can't live without Google services and Google apps, no amount of privacy-focus in the OS will be able to compensate much for that anyway. Note that there are still other good reasons for using alternative OS's in that case (e.g. continued functional and security updates), but privacy is then not one of them. Edited January 23, 2023 by claude0001 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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