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What it costs to build AOSP 16 on a 2010 IBM x3650 M3

I needed to build /e/OS to work on the prototype of a new feature. I had the idea of restarting an old machine, and I honestly wondered whether it would still cope with a modern AOSP tree.

It did, after two repairs: I added 32 GB of RAM (48 GB in total) and replaced a failing disk in the RAID array. Here is the full /e/OS build for the Fairphone 6 (AOSP 16, LineageOS 23.0 base) on a rack server whose CPUs predate AVX: the time, memory, disk, bandwidth and power it takes, and what breaks along the way.

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Your 2024 journey with /e/OS and Murena (and a V2!)

At the heart of /e/OS’s philosophy is a strong belief that individual choices can drive significant change. The decision to use one product over another is a powerful statement about the kind of world we want to live in.

/e/OS challenges users to reconsider their choices, questioning the systems they support through their use of products and services from companies like Google and the net giants.

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Google abuse of dominant position: some facts about the Google Android operating system and personal data collection.

This is the first draft of a collection of facts about what happens in the Google Android operating system in term of permanent personal data collection. This has been found while working on /e/OS the mobile OS in which we actually try to address those issues. Please contribute if you know about other facts, or if you think something is wrong: https://github.com/leag1234/some-facts-about-the-Google-Android-operating-system-and-personal-data-collection

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More demo contents about /e/ OS!

Now that /e/OS, the fully unGoogled and pro-privacy mobile OS is approaching a V1 release, it’s time to unveil a little bit more how it feels using it!

So we are starting a series of videos to show what’s in the OS, how to configure it…

This week we start with the “first use wizard”!

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The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available

“Linux pioneer Gaël Duval’s /e/ OS is still in beta but it’s available for your smartphone or on refurbished Samsung smartphones.”

” I’m impressed by Duval’s privacy-first approach, which builds on the existing successful Android platform. Instead of trying to replace it, he’s making the best of it. I think with privacy being more of a concern for users and hardware vendors looking for Google-free operating systems, /e/ may be successful where so many others have failed.”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-e-google-free-pro-privacy-android-clone-is-now-available/

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An /e/ Summer update: smartphones for sale, applications, PWAs & next steps

At the end of 2017, the /e/ project was unveiled in a series of articles entitled “Leaving Apple & Google: my (/e/) Odyssey” (Part1, Part2, Part3), with a clear promise: making a fully unGoogled and ready-to-use mobile operating system and online services, yet compatible with Android applications…

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