[sudo-discuss] Cheap tablet with LineageOS

Marc Juul marc at juul.io
Fri Nov 30 11:32:57 PST 2018


On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:47 AM Yardena Cohen <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:49 AM Marc Juul <marc at juul.io> wrote:
> > I bought one and it turns out that you can flash an unofficial older
> version of LineageOS, which is still being maintained for this device, and
> get a surprisingly good little tablet running 100% FOSS (well except the
> bootloader depending on which Fire OS version it has).
>
> Why did LineageOS stop supporting it?
>

Not sure if they ever did support it officially, but they tend to drop
official support if there isn't any currently active maintainer being
responsive to bugs for one of the newer versions of LineageOS. They even
dropped support for Galaxy S7 for a while until a new maintainer stepped up.
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