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by keypress 3156 days ago
Can someone explain what this? Is it a fork of Android with the Google service apps rewritten? Or just the latter? Could I take an old Android OS and install the alternative Gapps? Yours, confused.
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libeclipse 3156 days ago
It's a fork of LineageOS, which is the daughter of CyanogenMod, which is a fork of Android.

Only difference when comparing against LineageOS is that the OpenGApps package is "free".

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alinspired 3155 days ago
>Only difference when comparing against LineageOS is that the OpenGApps package is "free".

Rather GApps (google) functionality is re-implemented from scratch and the necessary means (app signature spoofing) to replace GApps with microG is built into this LOS fork

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sleepychu 3156 days ago
Lineage OS is a fork of Android. This is a fork of Lineage which replaces all the binary blobs to make the Google services work with open source code (with the same or similar behaviour).

I don't know for sure but probably not, the services aren't UserReplaceable.

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