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On 29/06/15 21:03, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Android |
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> as part of GSoC. I've yet to try it myself but you might find that |
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> useful. I doubt it runs x11, but your typical x11 application isn't |
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> really going to work well on a smartphone anyway unless you get a |
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> bluetooth mouse/keyboard for it, and a magnifying glass. |
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> I love to get ride of android altogether! |
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> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my |
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> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory. |
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> This is what I consider as the linux or more appropriately free software |
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> ecosystem. |
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> It is obvious that we are far from this but I think that we deserve it |
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> anyways. |
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> I dont know whay we are not there yet, touch screen is just another |
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> input device, baseband modulator and demodulators are just another |
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> device attached to the CPU. |
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There is an android app that allows you to run a gentoo image. I didn't |
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try to go past the shell into a GUI yet ... should be possible. The |
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problem I had was on trying to update a package for security reasons I |
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hit some critical item that was missing out of the android kernel config |
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so I'll have to build a custom one :( Will get back it some day, but |
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amazing none the less. |
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