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.
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.
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.
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.
By that logic you should call most web browsers Konqueror, because ultimately
they allmost of them forked from it.Edit: Fixed wrong information.
in the end, everything is just a fork of fortran
Firefox us not. But not ecen the same. Its like arch, Debian Fedora are all Linux.
Konqueror? KDE’s browser?
I think you meant to say Mosaic.
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.
Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).
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.
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.
Good old Cyanogen, my 10yo found my old nexus one in a draw, charged it up and turned it on…CyanogenMod boot screen, nice.
Mint still takes upstream changes from Ubuntu though right?
And Google has been taking steps to make Graphene development impossible over the past few years. It’s going to be gone eventually.
Google is not targeting graphene, google is targeting custom roms in general. Graphene isn’t the only project impacted by them.
That… Doesn’t affect my point at all.