CyanogenMod will officially live on as LineageOS Now


er since Cyanogen Inc. announced that they will be discontinuing all Cyanogen OS related services, many users wondered what would happen to CyanogenMod. Unfortunately, the worst scenario played out this past weekend, and CyanogenMod was declared officially dead.

We’ve coated all of this during a separate article on however the death of CyanogenMod would possibly have an effect on development, thus we have a tendency to suggest you ensure out. whereas it's heartrending to ascertain CyanogenMod meet such a fate, the sweetness of open supply means it'll not utterly die — it'll merelydeformthis is often wherever LineageOS comes in.

LineageOS in its current form is the re-branding of CyanogenMod. While developers and maintainers work to smoothly migrate all of their resources, custom ROM users have been looking for a place to discuss the new distribution. We at XDA-Developers would like to expand our forums to such users and developers alike.

The core objective on that XDA-Developers was launched in 2003 was to supply a typical space for developers round the world to return along to switch, tweak, and usually improve the usability of their chosen devices. whereas the XDA forums were ab initio created with PDAs in mind, the arrival of Windows Mobile OS and later golem created the web site accessible to additional users World Health Organization were wanting to urge the foremost out of their devices.


Thus, CyanogenMod was born. The Android distribution traces its first steps on similar objectives — to modify, tweak, and improve the usability of Android devices. CyanogenMod started off rather humbly in the HTC Dream (G1) forum under the care of Steve ‘Cyanogen’ Kondik. With version after version and release after release, the ROM exploded in popularity and later expanded onto other, newer devices with more developers contributing to the project. The rest, as they say, is history.

The need of the hour is cooperation and collaboration, as the custom ROM community tries to revive perhaps the biggest contributor of development of any device to its former glory. In such times, we extend our forums as a place for developers and users alike to come together and work for the combined, greater good.