P.S.: @Volker has made me aware of the fact that @Ingo posted about this some hours ago already, however in a topic that generally covers FP4: Google-free Android - #37 by Ingo. I believe though it makes sense to have this as a standalone topic as well as so far Murena has been the only seller of the Fairphone 3 and Fairphone 4 that ships the device with a degoogled OS already pre-installed. If moderators disagree with my judgement, I will of course accept.
This is great news! I’ve had the Fairphone for over month now, but still haven’t used it because I’ve been waiting for a deGoogled OS. when will the OS be available for download for those that already have the FP4?
For me, only iodé, Los4mg or LOS come into question.
But not /e/OS
The restrictions and paternalism I will have with this system are not acceptable to me.
I know nothing about /e/ in the sense I never ran it. But it was my understanding that it’s a fork of LOS.
Maybe I’m taking shortcuts here, but if /e/ is already stable enough to be put on sellable device it appears the work should be “minor” to get a usable LOS anytime soon. I don’t know if /e/ OS source is being shared with LOS community developpers but I sure hope there’s some collaboration at some extend at least…
This topic is about the /e/ OS and if you are referring to that
This is user forum and not for /e/ (Murena)
So you may like to contact whoever it was that promised you such as it wouldn’t be a forum user nor any official Fairphone rep that look in now and then. ???
you do know that /e/ OS is in FACT Murena now right? You can see that if you go up to the topic as well. And maybe you missed, that they changed the name. Asking for the rom as they ship it out with the fairphone4 is allowed and you should respect that.
I cant remember where I saw the message that it will be out but if there is just a rom, I can install it on my phone. Except there is something new I dont know.
Yes I’m aware that the e foundation is now producing under the name Murena
My point was that this is a) not a Murena related forum let alone anyone’s official news outlet, hence my direction to ask on the /e/ Murena stage.
As this is a Fairphone user forum.
Respect ?? Did I show some disrespect ??
The ‘they’ is Murena ~ /e/ not Fairphone and this is still only a user forum
From experience I’d say this is a tricky one. In the past it was up to volunteers to add support for a new device to the easy installer. I’m not saying there might be no-one up to the task, but most of the time I’ve only seen people asking for it but next to nobody contributing to it.
Sure, the FP4 is sold with /e/ OS preinstalled so one might think it’s kind of “official” and the /e/ team will do the necessary changes. But the FP3 was also sold with /e/ preinstalled and there I was the volunteer. The /e/ devs were supportive, no doubt about that, still it wasn’t them who did all the work.
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