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tswindell is offline tswindell
2015-11-24 , 15:41
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Originally Posted by billranton View Post
Yes, except in that case can't you use hybris to let you run glibc stuff too? You could basically decapitate Android, and replace the head with something more GNU like, package manager based.
Like Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Mobile, Mer/Nemo + glacier + Hybris, etc. As of yet the adoption is minimal, only really people interested in hacking on devices: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

It's also expensive to maintain an entire linux/glibc distribution like Mer, Sailfish, Ubuntu, etc. When all we are really interested in, is being able to change the way people use things, the big game changer in the computing space.

Though, if you want to use vim/emacs, screen/irssi, Debian/Fedora/SuSe installations, heavy package managers and big applications. We can chroot these things. They don't require things like, sensor integration, etc.
 

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