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[OT slightly] about Android etc, compared to Fremantle
moved these posts over here from device/Neo900
cheers jOERG |
Re: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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However, every now and then I find something that makes me lose my cool. For example, in Android 6+ if you mount a USB drive with USB OTG, Android doesn't actually create a linux mount for it. Instead it abstracts it using some API. All I wanted to do was move files from the phone to a flash drive! I would have been happy with a GUI method or a commandline method, but I couldn't find a path for the flash drive which is needed for both. Bloody nightmare. I think that running those few Android bits that are necessary (i.e. apps that can't be replaced) on top of a proper Linux distro (i.e. SFOS) is generally less annoying than trying to rebuild linux on top of Android, because Android seems to be getting less and less linuxy. Quote:
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Now I must admit I don't have that much visibility in what goes around in android application world nowdays, but at least it used to be so that there are hundreds of applications that basically do the same thing (or even nothing useful at all) and some of those are just made to purpose of violating user's privacy. |
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* That would require rewriting all of the tagret FSes instead of writing a simple shim. |
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The reason is related to making it easier to have read-only filesystem, where most things that don't need persistence are moved to /run. Not sure how far from that Android is. |
[OT slightly] about Android etc, compared to Fremantle
moved these posts over here from device/Neo900
cheers jOERG |
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