Comment Re: No app store (Score 3, Informative) 65

by getupstandup1 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:22AM (#63661414) Attached to: The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US

/e/OS' App Lounge provides: - all apps from Google Play Store - all apps from F-Droid - a selection of PWAs

Comment Re:No app store (Score 1) 65

by getupstandup1 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:21AM (#63661408) Attached to: The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US

/e/OS is clearly better than DivestOS in term of user experience and "deGoogling".

Comment Re:How is different from Lineage? (Score 1) 43

by getupstandup1 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:23AM (#59238216) Attached to: The<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available

There is a comprehensive list of /e/'s specific features at: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/... Also, the status of "unGoogling" and some pro-privacy features is available at: https://gitlab.e.foundation/se...

Submission + - First ungoogle Android smartphone (e.foundation)

Submitted by getupstandup1 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @10:27AM

getupstandup1 writes: This will probably the first fully "ungoogled" Android-based smartphone to hit the market ever: the /e/ smartphone will start to ship in June, on high-grade refurbished smartphones. While more and more people are concerned about privacy, it's interesting to see such initiative, especially considering that it was started by someone who is coming from the Linux distro world.

Comment I'd prefer a FOSS/privacy centric option... (Score 1) 58

by getupstandup1 on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:22PM (#58496684) Attached to: KaiOS Takes on the iOS-Android Mobile Duopoly

This project makes much more sense to me: https://e.foundation/ And is compatible with any Android app. And it won't be purchased by Google like KaiOS will probably be (Google invested several millions in KaiOS)

Comment Switch to eelo? (Score 1) 207

by getupstandup1 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:26AM (#56128090) Attached to: Ubuntu Wants To Collect Data About Your System -- Starting With 18.04 LTS

Not available yet, but the project can already be supported: "A mobile OS in the public interest" https://eelo.io/ https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...

Submission + - New project "eelo": leaving Apple and Google created by Mandrake Linux creator

Submitted by nuand999 on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:11AM

nuand999 writes: Open-source veteran Gaël Duval, who created Mandrake Linux, wants to leave Apple and Google. So he's creating a non-profit project eelo.io that is going to release "privacy-friendly" smartphones and associated web-services. "I realized that I had become lazy. Not only I wasn’t using Linux anymore as my main operating system but I was using a proprietary OS on my smartphone. And I was using Google more and more." eelo is going to be forked fromLineageOS, and will ship with existing open source bricks put together into a consistent and privacy-enhanced, yet desirable, smartphone OS + web-service. A crowdfunding campaign has just started on Kickstarter to fuel early developments.