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Comment by dgrove | Hacker News Reader

How quickly HN forgets. There are tons of Google-less Android builds. You can even run AOSP (Android Open Source Project) without Googles' binaries. When I want to use something without Google, I use CopperheadOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16030391

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From the article:

> Unless you are a geek, LineageOS is not realistically usable if you don't want Google inside

Why? LineageOS plus F-Droid with Firefox, OsmAnd~ and Conversations is surprisingly usable.

I agree it could get a bit more polish. But if Eelo is going to be a big effort, maybe he should try to go for a full Linux distro like Jolla sans the closed components. With stuff like Anbox (Android containers) it should be moderately easy to bootstrap an ecosystem.

By random dude on the street? I doubt it.

What makes you say HN has forgotten? The title is just copied from the article which describes another interesting sounding alternative.

The CopperheadOS post was 5 days ago and was in the top 10 for the majority of the day. Which also had the original title of being a Google-less Hardened version of Android.

"An (X) emerges" does not preclude others having already emerged.

The article even mentions others.

I'm not dismissing that, I'm just stating that we were literally here 5 days ago talking about another alternative. One that already has an entire team backing it and keeping security in mind. There are probably 10s to 100s of different android builds with and without google. There are definitely a few that will outshine others: Cyanogen, Oxygen, Lineage, AOKP, TWRP to name a few that stick out in my mind. It's just funny that not even 5 days later we're back again with another android fork that google-less.

LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617615

The article specifically notes they will fork lineageos and use microG.

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