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#76
Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
I think our goal should be even more modest than this. I think we should be working on a really full-function change root environment for Android. Something like Easy Debian, but with no gotchas (like sshd not working in Easy Debian). If we did this right, then we could run it on every new Android machine that gets released. I simply don't believe our community is capable of getting Sailfish to work 100% on anything, and if we did, it would be obsolete by the time we did it. I know this would do nothing for those among us whose highest priority is privacy, but they'll have to wait for the neo900. The wait may be a long one.
This seams like a reasonable compromise that will let you take advantage of the latest developments in hardware and not constrain you to one device. What would be nice is if one could seamlessly start android apps, especially hardware specific ones like camera, from within the debian user interface. I don't know if this is easy with chroot. I recall, using easy debian on my N900 and having an openoffice icon on my maemo screen so it looked like an app. But running that meant that debian had to be started up first and then open office would start which was pretty slow. This is the opposite of what I'm suggesting. Fist have debian running so that its applications start up faster, but allow the android apps to be called from debian so that they fire up right away as android is running anyways.
 

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