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Unless it involves making much more of their device software and specs open source, it's nothing to get excited about. The way it talks about a partnership makes it seem unlikely that it will help compatibility with postmarketOS. GrapheneOS doesn't even use the latest Linux kernel like postmarketOS does. Hope I'm wrong, and it's cool that this is coming from a company owned by Lenovo.
From: https://grapheneos.org/features#more-complete-patching
Edit: GrapheneOS ships kernel 6.12.73 (two minor versions behind but it's an LTS branch that gets constant backported security fixes) as of this month and gets LTS point releases out faster than stock Pixel OS. They're also the only Android OS shipping full security preview patches, months before public disclosure. "Not the latest mainline kernel" and "less secure" are different things.
Thanks for the correction.
I think it's plenty exciting—GrapheneOS is by far the best option for a private and secure yet very usable mobile experience, so not being locked into Google hardware is great.
You mean Google software?
I think the best option to not be locked into Google stuff is to just get a global version Xiaomi or other Chinese phone. At least for most places in the world, where they're sold.
You're still locked in to Google's Android operating system. Which will now only get a new open source release every 6 months.
My Fedora Linux PC gets updates about once a day. And Linux kernel updates are maybe every couple weeks to almost the latest kernel version. Most Android phones have a years out of date Linux kernel.
I feel like calling it "Google's Android" is muddying the waters between AOSP and Google's actual proprietary version of Android that comes with Google Play Services and such. GrapheneOS being built on the former is such a minor (though still valid) concern that it continues to be the first name in private/secure phone OSes for anyone who doesn't have a nuclear threat model
It's developed largely by Google. They control what features it has and doesn't have, the same way they do with Chromium. It's not minor in my opinion. Not really community-developed the way desktop Linux is.