E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment order/e/ is mud among the LineageOS community (which is upstream of it), due to several reasons. Sadly I can't find the relevant /r/lineageOS posts . Here's some reading that covers the basic points though: https://intangiblesheep.neocities.org/rants/eelo.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191224031946/https://ewwlo.xyz...
If anyone from this project is reading this: please just contribute to the upstream projects your are building off of. >We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems. No, the LineageOS team builds them, then you rebrand them. If you want to actually make a difference, contribute your changes directly to the LineageOS trees. Device support is paramount for custom ROMs and LineageOS already has an amazing amount of devices. All this will do is fragment the ecosystem. >default…
So it looks like, right now, the latest that can be had is the OS based on Android 15. That's 9 months after Android 16 release. That's multiple patches, bugfixes and security updates not available from the outset. TBF i don't think a phone can actually be private without being secure.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 450
- Total comments
- 208
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-14 | Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systemsFirst breakout | prince707 | 119 | 68 |
| 2019-12-30 | /e/, a privacy-focused fork of Android | dgellow | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-30 | E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online servicesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lelf | 320 | 133 |
| 2026-03-22 | E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS | abdelhousni | 9 | 7 |