Comment by zepto
5 years ago
Android isn’t really what I’d call ‘Linux’ on the iPad.
I’d be interested in running a real Linux on my old iPad hardware.
5 years ago
Android isn’t really what I’d call ‘Linux’ on the iPad.
I’d be interested in running a real Linux on my old iPad hardware.
Android uses the Linux kernel too, if the Linux kernel can run on the iPad, it is probably relatively "easy" to switch to a different userspace. At minimum, one can run (for eg) Debian in a chroot on Android:
https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
I think you meant GNU/Linux instead of "real".
Android is a real Linux in the same way that iOS is a real BSD Unix.
No, I don't think that's true. Android is just Linux with an Android userland.
Richard Stallman was quite correct to call it GNU/Linux, as much as I dislike the guy.
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The opposite tho. Darwin uses a BSD userland (and a proprietary GUI stack) atop a custom kernel while Android is a Linux kernel with a custom userland (and again a proprietary GUI stack.)
They do both use bash tho ;)
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What? Android’s kernel is a pretty close derivative of upstream Linux while iOS’ kernel has almost nothing to do with any current BSD distribution.
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