Doesn’t rooting GOS feel counter intuitive? If you’re looking for security rooting GOS circumvents its security policy. May as well download some other OS at that point?
With the discontinuation of Disroot(?) A couple years ago, and now CalyxOS on a hiatus that’s going to require reimaging if they ever do come back, GrapheneOS is currently the only project that is supporting Android within the last 3-ish generations and us a fully put together OS. Lineage is at least 2 versions back currently, and only that new on a couple devices. Additionally it’s not really a fully fleshed OS so much as it’s the basis for custom ROMs, which frequently see no security awareness or concern at all, and only get a couple releases before disappearing.
/e/ is really one of the only alternatives, and is just based on Lineage but with some security awareness and an actual update history.
So sure it’s not the original intent of GrapheneOS, but they have some of the best build tools I’ve ever seen, and are one of the few actually put together OSes.
Yes, that’s right, so I did. I wanted to have a go to see what it was about, though, and I found that root was more important for me than the security that GOS purports to offer.
And when Google itself is one of your threat actors, literally the world’s worst solution that provides the barest modicum of protection against Google is by definition more secure.
Doesn’t rooting GOS feel counter intuitive? If you’re looking for security rooting GOS circumvents its security policy. May as well download some other OS at that point?
With the discontinuation of Disroot(?) A couple years ago, and now CalyxOS on a hiatus that’s going to require reimaging if they ever do come back, GrapheneOS is currently the only project that is supporting Android within the last 3-ish generations and us a fully put together OS. Lineage is at least 2 versions back currently, and only that new on a couple devices. Additionally it’s not really a fully fleshed OS so much as it’s the basis for custom ROMs, which frequently see no security awareness or concern at all, and only get a couple releases before disappearing. /e/ is really one of the only alternatives, and is just based on Lineage but with some security awareness and an actual update history.
So sure it’s not the original intent of GrapheneOS, but they have some of the best build tools I’ve ever seen, and are one of the few actually put together OSes.
Yes, that’s right, so I did. I wanted to have a go to see what it was about, though, and I found that root was more important for me than the security that GOS purports to offer.
This was what I learned.