Disturbing news to the developer community yesterday was the development that Cyanogenmod will cease to exist come January 1. Unsurprisingly given their turn in recent months, Cyanogen Inc. (cyngn) ...

Shortly after announcing that it was getting out of the smartphone operating system game, Cyanogen Inc pulled the plug on some of the key resources used by the developers of the open-source, community ...

A page has turned with the demise of CyanogenMod, the alternative to Android beloved by geeks. However, a new project along similar lines, called LineageOS, is in the works. On Christmas Eve, the team ...

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Tech press is saying that Lineage OS is supposed to be the successor, but so far, it looks like LineageOS is having trouble getting off the ground.

There was a time when people loved experimenting with custom ROMs. That’s when CyanogenMod stood apart from all, but its popularity gradually began to fade. The successor of the once-great CyanogenMod ...

The custom ROM scene for Android devices isn’t nearly what it once was, but down to today, 1.5 million devices are currently running on LineageOS. LineageOS is the project that took up the work of the ...

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