Comment by 4gotunameagain
6 days ago
ROM is to android what an image file is to Linux. A distro is a collection of software and tools, more akin to an android OS.
6 days ago
ROM is to android what an image file is to Linux. A distro is a collection of software and tools, more akin to an android OS.
GrapheneOS and other operating systems based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) are Linux distributions. None of those is a ROM. They're AOSP-based OSes. They're not read-only memory firmware or stored in read-only memory. Using the term ROM that way is very confusing to people who aren't part of communities historically using it that way. It's very misleading and propagates misconceptions. It's not simply about it not being technically accurate.