Originally published at: https://www.fairphone.com/es/2018/01/23/f-droid-auto-updates/ I’m an open source fan. Which is to say, I believe so much in the principles behind fully transparent, fully shareble, fully user-tweakable software that I’m willing to sacrifice some personal convenience for …

I use LineageOS with automatic f-droid updates, but this only worked after I flashed the privileged extension manually. As far as I know it is not integrated in LineageOS itself.

The great thing about Lineage OS: You don’t have to integrate such things in the OS. The user can choose whether to make modifications to the OS like adding su, f-droid privilleged, microg, xposed or - god forbid - gapps and OTA updates will still work and the modifications will remain.

Great news! We’re working on making it easy to install F-Droid itself on Fairphone Open, now that Privileged Extension is built in. About using F-Droid with Privileged Extension on LineageOS, that has been supported for a while in two ways: flash Privileged Extension OTA like you would gapps or …

[image] eighthave: About using F-Droid with Privileged Extension on LineageOS, that has been supported for a while in two ways: flash Privileged Extension OTA like you would gapps or other things use LineageOS for microG, which has it built-in Ah, I’m on normal Lineage so I’d need to flash …

I have to admit I find the information on F-Droid Privileged Extension | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository hard to understand. I had to read it a handful of times and am still not sure I understood it correctly. For example the following advantages: “Reduced disk usage in the sy…

[image] Ingo: Ah, I’m on normal Lineage so I’d need to flash the extension. Automatic update just asked to enable “unknown sources”. Yes, I think, that is the difference to FP oOS with F-Droid, privieged Extension. For me that doesn’t matter, because I am also using the Yalp store. For this l…

[image] Douwe: I’m an open source fan. Which is to say, I believe so much in the principles behind fully transparent, fully shareble, fully user-tweakable software that I’m willing to Sorry, but it seems you confuse open source and free software. Open source only means that you can study the …

Does “Fairphone Open” will have a relationship with eelo project ?

[image] JulienGarrigue: Does “Fairphone Open” will have a partnership with #eelo ? See here .

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