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Auteur: Antony Stone
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Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,
On Sunday 25 June 2017 at 22:23:24, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> 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.


I suspect the good people at http://www.android-x86.org would know about this
- they (re)build kernels for Android (to run on x86 hardware) all the time.


Antony.

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