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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Do any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They dont use GNU or glibc or systemd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lots of distros don’t use systemd, and a few non-AOSP distros don’t use GNU userland or glibc, Alpine for one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Just saying what some guy told me.

It is also a highly modified kernel, extremely reduced. They do all filesystem stuff in userspace for example, which is pretty cool. And they add a ton of garbage out of tree drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

glibc is key here, it's what most linux distros use. One of Google's vendor-lock moves was to start using their own libc implementation, making it incompatible with everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can imagine that theirs is safer and more suited for targeted devices. Linux is extremely generalistic and has a ton of cruft.

But I have never looked at their code or tried to port a Linux app to Android. The #Krita devs might have some insight here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can imagine that theirs is safer and more suited for targeted devices. Linux is extremely generalistic and has a ton of cruft.

For targeted devices so is Gentoo. Their edge is having access to proprietary drivers.

But I have never looked at their code or tried to port a Linux app to Android. The #Krita devs might have some insight here.

If it's written in portable C you can use the Android NDK/SDK to cross-compile it for the 4 archs they support. I do it at work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So how is this vendor lockin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not an actual lock-in as they (still) provide tools to cross-compile and the source is (still) available, more like a vendor push-out if you insist.