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It's a LineageOS fork which bundles MicroG and several apps to make a more usable out-of-the-box OS.

They have also re-added frequent builds for many of the phones that Lineage had dropped - including the OnePlus X which I have.

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/e/ has quite a few security issues that haven't been addressed.

Infosec Handbook did a rundown when they first came about: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-first-look/

Then they did it again, more recently: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/e-foundation-second-look/

There's also this site: https://ewwlo.xyz/evil.html

There are also MicroG builds, they just add MicroG and the F-Droid Privileged Extension, which allows F-Droid to install and update apps without the need of user interaction or the unsafe "Unknown sources" option.

https://lineage.microg.org/#faq

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