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

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.