SUSubzeroCarnage·Dec 29, 2024
the 21 port was actually largely complete: https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
In DivestOS ROM shuts after ten yearsDivested-Mobile
DivestOS-Build
Shell2020–2024
Divested-Mobile / DivestOS-Build · Archived
DivestOS-Build
Everything needed to build DivestOS, a more private and more secure aftermarket mobile operating system.
3Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
239GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Everything needed to build DivestOS, a more private and more secure aftermarket mobile operating system.
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2020-06-17 22:24:17 UTC to 2024-12-29 07:55:44 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesThe DivestOS project put stronger emphasis on device longevity and on libre ("free as in speech"), so their microG implementation was just a better fit for their case.
- https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/discussion...
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/divestos-unprivileged-mi...
In DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years> It's about not using unaudited closed source code which cannot be proven to be secure or private [..]
Degoogling is not deblobbing and Lineage or /e/ use plenty of closed source software during runtime. The top parent and DivestOS author really is deblobbing* to some degree, but forks of LineageOS that introduce measures of "degoogling" hold onto vendor firmware blobs on androids /vendor partition for functionality. Those aren't known for connecting to the Google hivemind though.
* https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/de3ba...
My interpretation of the term degoogling fits the second part of your sentence, "getting away from online services": it is user agency in what network connections can occur, so either by default or optionally users can stop any signaling coming from the device they use. They don't have that freed
Read the rest
om with the software the device came with.
I remember when Micay first released CopperheadOS.
I spent most of early 2015 learning enough about kernels to eventually successfully port it to the OnePlus One in November of 2015 with near full PaX support.
https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/c0083...
In E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online servicesDivestOS does not come with anything as DivestOS doesn't sell devices.
Selling devices with outdated vendor firmware with known security issues would be immoral.
However on select devices you can successfully relock the bootloader with DivestOS installed, as it is properly signed [0] and enables verity on supported devices.
Other alternatives that support relocking are GrapheneOS [1], CalyxOS [2], #!OS [3], and RattlesnakeOS [4].
They too do not sell devices.
[0] https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
[1] https://grapheneos.org/
[2] https://calyxos.org/
[3] https://github.com/hashbang/os
[4] https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
In Your Computer Isn't YoursShamless plug:
I provide heavily patched 8.1 builds for bullhead with over 250+ kernel CVE patches.
https://divestos.org/index.php?page=devices&base=LineageOS
https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
In A list of discontinued Mozilla products and servicesMy project, DivestOS, offers -user builds of Q for the FP2 with some hardening on top. See for example [1]
Getting -user builds of LineageOS does have many hurdles and it definitely impacts some devices more then others. Some devices even have their SELinux policy relying on neverallows. But it is managable.
[1] https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/maste...
In A tiny smartphone company just brought a new Android version to a 2015 device