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GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back (www.androidauthority.com)

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[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Im confused. Graphene has been saying this for at least a couple years. Is there a change now where they're actually finalizing something?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

If I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway.

So that's some additional motivation at least.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like Google is no longer giving security patches as quickly as the used to. I may be wrong.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean we've known that for a couple months. I want to know if Graphene is actually close to releasing something or if this is just digging up old quotes where they're just saying "we're working with an OEM" like they have been for the past couple years.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

I don't know about releasing an actual phone but they've released closed source patches for testing. They have the code but they can't opensource the code until google does so publicly, so yes they've got a OEM partner.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164133992525834

[–] uncrme@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's more that Google is making it significantly more difficult for non-Google sanctioned projects to operate on Pixel phones and there may come a time when it's no longer feasible to develop GrapheneOS for the Pixel

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They said for at least a couple of years that they want to expand to other phone models or that they're partnering with a major OEM?

The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

That they are partnering with an OEM. I remember the chatterings around it happening at least a year ago if not longer.