Farewell for Cyanogen
Miss you lot Cyanogen!!
*Thanks to The hackersnews.
And now, the whole world is getting ready to celebrate New year 2017.But android users, who are considered to be amateur or professional developers were planning for farewell to cyanogen Rom's and Os. By end of this year, just after 31 december, Cyanogen announced that, they are going to leave the android market. But there is alternative followed in this article.
They had tried a lot, but unfortunately failed in killing Google's Android operating system. Due to this, they are pushed to shutdown the custom services they provides to phones that run Cyanogen OS and the "nightly builds" on December 31st. Cyanogen came with an ambition to build better versions of the Android operating system than those created by Google itself, but following some technical and potential legal issues, the startup has decided to quit.
The planned shutdown of Cyanogen was officially announced late Friday through a very brief blog post made by the company, saying "as part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen," it's shutting down all services and nightly builds on December 31.
From January 2017, there will be no further updates to the Cyanogen OS, no more nightly builds, and no more security updates. Eventually, smartphones running on the Cyanogen OS, like the original OnePlus One and Lenovo ZUK Z1, will have to switch to the open-source version of the CyanogenMod operating system.
CyanogenMod OS is not a commercial operating system and is managed by a community of developers led by Steve Kondik, the co-founder of Cyanogen.
'Death Blow' to CyanogenMod
However, the CyanogenMod team believes that the shutdown of Cyanogen is a "death blow" to CyanogenMod, the team announced just after the closure announcement by Cyanogen. CyanogenMod team pays respects to the community as it served for more than eight long years and announced the next open-source Android project. Embracing the spirit of Cyanogen, the CyanogenMod team of developers, designers, device maintainers, and translators are now working to produce a fork of the CyanogenMod source code and pending patches.
Next? CyanogenMod Team Launches Lineage OS
While both Cyanogen and CyanogenMod are saying goodbye this year, the spirit of CyanogenMod will continue to live on in the new open source project. Dubbed LineageOS, the new OS is still in its inception phase and would take some time for people to see any progress from the newly formed unit. According to the CyanogenMod (CM) team, Lineage "is more than just a ‘rebrand’" and "will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently." A website is being developed for LineageOS, and the GitHub repository can be found populated with CM files, called Lineage Android Distribution. The beginning of this new open source project "will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was."
