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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The LineageOS project was born from CyanogenMod’s ashes one year ago. And since, it has been embraced by a growing community of contributors and users. Built from Android open source code, it intends to offer a full and independent operating system for mobiles. What is LineageOS? how to install it? what can be expected? Why is it a major open source project?