Can you still get CalyxOS on the Fairphone 5?
from wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 20 Sep 16:26
https://lemmy.ml/post/36421395

When you go to the website and click to download, you are redirected to a letter to the community. I heard there is/was a changing of the guard and development is on hiatus. Does this mean you can’t download CalyxOS from them at all anymore? Is this a reflection of the actions google is taking with the play store?

Should I be looking at a different OS than CalyxOS? I’m currently running /e/ amd was interested in trying something else. Do you have any other suggestions of privacy driven OS’s?

Sorry for so many questions 🤣

#privacy

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Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Sep 17:17 next collapse

Calyx has been inactive since a few months. This is unrelated to google afaik. A good way to search for a custom ROM is go through the XDAforums forum of your device. Most custom ROMs are posted there.

timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works on 20 Sep 17:42 next collapse

The images are back up I believe.

The project is reorganizing and changing security keys due to the head and lead Dev leaving. They plan to publish new images in the coming months AFAIK. A reinstall will be needed at that point.

This isn’t related to the Google stuff.

Auli@lemmy.ca on 21 Sep 21:01 collapse

In February that is a long way off. What little steam the project hade well be lost by then. I expect they well be gone in five years.

timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works on 22 Sep 00:37 collapse

Not unlikely .I hope not but we’ll see.

glitching@lemmy.ml on 21 Sep 12:15 next collapse

forgive my ignorance but I always thought calyxOS was lineageOS + microG, are there things in there I missed?

nshibj@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 23:00 collapse

CalyxOS is not LineageOS + microG. It is a different operating system for mobile phones, based on LineageOS and includes microG, but it is not LineageOS + microG.

There is a different operating system, which is basically LineageOS + microG, called LineageOS for microG.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 21 Sep 13:28 collapse

They are in pause until february.