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GΛËL DUVΛL
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May 24

Leaving Apple & Google - Murena & /e/OS roadmap for 2023 and beyond

This year marks the 5th year since I started the /e/OS project! And we have gone from a few articles about the inital intention to a smartphone OS and a private cloud used by tens of thousands of users. /e/OS has become the leading daily-driver OS for everyone who wants…

Degoogled

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Leaving Apple & Google - Murena & /e/OS roadmap for 2023 and beyond
Leaving Apple & Google - Murena & /e/OS roadmap for 2023 and beyond
Degoogled

4 min read


Mar 27

“Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”

In a pretty long article published on March 24th at “TheNextWeb”, /e/OS was lucky enough to be highlighted as a proof of “why a a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”. The full article is mostly FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) and I like it because when you…

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“Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”
“Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”

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Dec 1, 2022

Support the development of /e/OS & Murena!

Since 2017, when I announced that I wanted to “Leave Apple & Google”, the /e/OS project has done tremendous progresses: we have succeeded to design and release a modern and realistically usable operating system and cloud services that protect their users from permanent personal data collection and from surveillance capitalism. …

Degoogled

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Support the development of /e/OS & Murena!
Support the development of /e/OS & Murena!
Degoogled

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Mar 22, 2022

Murena & /e/OS — a product roadmap for 2022: towards our V1?

It’s interesting to have a look back at our past year roadmap: most of the features we announced are either done or close to be completed, which is not too bad! The two things that have shown very little progress are the Smart Assistant project, and the energy efficiency project. …

Degoogled

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Murena & /e/OS — a product roadmap for 2022: towards our V1?
Murena & /e/OS — a product roadmap for 2022: towards our V1?
Degoogled

5 min read


Oct 19, 2021

Murena smartphones and cloud will protect our privacy

More than ever the market is demanding a new approach for digital products: more and more people around the world want something different, more ethical, more sustainable, with real guarantees about personal data protection. Four years ago, I wanted to break free from Google and Apple, and therefore we…

Privacy

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Privacy

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Apr 29, 2021

/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (2/2) — A product roadmap

In the first part of this article, we explained that /e/ has a primary focus on user’s data privacy, circular economy and energy, and that it is fully inline with the global trend seeking to reduce the negative impact of tech in general and helping creating a new paradigm to…

Degoogled

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/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (2/2) — A product roadmap
/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (2/2) — A product roadmap
Degoogled

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Apr 27, 2021

Google abuse of dominant position: some facts about the Google Android operating system and personal data collection.

This is a first collection of facts about what happens in the Google Android operating system in term of permanent personal data collection. This has been found while working on /e/OS the mobile OS in which we actually try to address those issues. Note: if you want to share or…

Degoogled

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Google abuse of dominant position: some facts about the Google Android operating system and…
Google abuse of dominant position: some facts about the Google Android operating system and…
Degoogled

4 min read


Mar 24, 2021

/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (1/2) — Introduction

Three years after /e/ - the Google-free ecosystem - came to be, things have never moved as fast as they are now. We’re seeing a lot of traction in terms of new users, of new /e/ accounts, and of /e/-smartphones sales. We’re also getting noticed in many posts and press…

Degoogled

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/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (1/2) — Introduction
/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (1/2) — Introduction
Degoogled

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Nov 20, 2020

“Elivia”: towards an /e/ smart assistant?

In only about 5 years only, AI-driven smart assistants have become a common usage for many us. We find them on websites, to catch visitors attention or potential customers, we find them integrated in connected speakers, mostly by Google, Amazon and Apple, and of course they also are present in…

Smart Assistant

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“Elivia”: towards an /e/ smart assistant?
“Elivia”: towards an /e/ smart assistant?
Smart Assistant

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Oct 2, 2020

/e/OS and the (not)Android user interface

Here I’m talking about the /e/OS approach regarding the user interface, and upcoming changes. It might seem odd that at /e/, we put some energy and some development effort into the end-user user interface. We are a pro-privacy, deGoogled, mobile operating system, right? The reason behind this, is double: 1…

Degoogled

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/e/OS and the (not)Android user interface
/e/OS and the (not)Android user interface
Degoogled

4 min read

GΛËL DUVΛL

GΛËL DUVΛL

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Software engineer, Entrepreneur: Mandrake-Linux 1998, Ulteo 2006, /e/OS & Murena 2017, Open Source advocate. https://gaelduval.com/about-gael-duval/

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