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[–] lucario_owo@pawb.social 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's a fork and always will, it's still android. I don't get why people refer to it as a different project. It's the same project with tweaks.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

By that logic you should call most web browsers Konqueror, because ultimately ~~they all~~ most of them forked from it.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

in the end, everything is just a fork of fortran

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Firefox us not. But not ecen the same. Its like arch, Debian Fedora are all Linux.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Konqueror? KDE's browser?

I think you meant to say Mosaic.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've phrased myself wrong, I mean that most of them are ultimately based on Konqueror (including WebKit and Chromium-based browsers). Firefox of course doesn't have much to do with Konqueror.

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get what you are saying. But the difference is more akin to Mint and Ubuntu. Where one started as a fork of the other, which itself was a fork of something else, but at this point in time both are so different from their original source material that they’re all three just considered different distributions of the same thing.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Mint still takes upstream changes from Ubuntu though right?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian all still rely on the Linux kernel, though. A better comparison might be how LineageOS is technically a fork of the dead CyanogenMod project, but even before the latter fully imploded was different enough to be its own thing.

Both of them still relied on the existence of AOSP though, for new features, bug fixes, hardware support, certain core functionality, etc. AOSP is a lot bigger than just the Linux kernel, and because of the tighter coupling between hardware and software on mobile devices, there's a whole other discussion about creating a real non-Android OS for them, but I think that's a closer parallel.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 15 hours ago

Good old Cyanogen, my 10yo found my old nexus one in a draw, charged it up and turned it on....CyanogenMod boot screen, nice.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And Google has been taking steps to make Graphene development impossible over the past few years. It's going to be gone eventually.

[–] lucario_owo@pawb.social 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Google is not targeting graphene, google is targeting custom roms in general. Graphene isn't the only project impacted by them.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

That... Doesn't affect my point at all.

[–] Pman@lemmy.org 8 points 1 day ago

With their partnership with Motorola I'm not so sure.