On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 22.06.2017 19:53, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > I manage to get a root accout on my phone. But even root only gets
> > selective access to parts of the file system. And hope you're lucky
> > when you try to guess the names of the its of file system you are
> > allowed to access. Google seems to have found ways to geld root.
>
> By the way: I've already thought of some "GnuDroid" project (and did
> a few experiments), briging the app stuff into GNU world (might even
> be useful for small desktop apps) and just running a minimal GNU/Linux
> w/ GNUdroid on the phone.
>
> Anyone here working on something similar ?

The big question is whether Android still requires a custom Linux
kernel. I know years ago it did, and the first batch of changes Google
proposed weren't admitted into the Linux kernel. I heard that they
modified their proposal, and that subsequently they did get changes into
the official kernel. Whether it now has *everything* Android needs? I
don't know.

Google "Android on Linux" and you'll probably find a few relevant links.

-- hendrik