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A question that always generates calm and reasonable discussion: What OS do you use? | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 149 comments | Search Discussion
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Thursday August 06 2015, @08:09AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Thursday August 06 2015, @08:09AM (#218993) Journal

    Though it may be Linux based, it's a separate entity these days, and honestly I use it more than my Linux desktop most days.

    I'd wager that for many, many people the smartphone or tablet OS is at least as important as a desktop operating system.

    And of course there's the OS that runs my TV, and the one that runs my car, and....

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @08:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @08:18AM (#218998)

    Android is Linux with the Freedom removed. You call that Linux? Shame on Google. Dude where's my bash prompt?

    • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday August 06 2015, @06:13PM

      by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday August 06 2015, @06:13PM (#219188) Homepage Journal

      I know right? I rooted my phone and I got a fedora chroot on an ext4 partition on my sd card. I use the SDL X11 server app with DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 to get a nice XFCE on my phone.

      All this is good and well, but I should NOT NEED TO ROOT IT! And to add insult to injury, it's boot locked.

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      • (Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:26PM

        by mr_mischief (4884) on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:26PM (#219275)

        I have Debian on a chroot for mine. It works without rooting the phone, but with some minor quirks. I apt-get installed my C toolchain so I could natively compile things on it. The first thing I did with that was compile perl because the one provided with the chroot didn't support some of the things I wanted it to do.

        • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday August 07 2015, @04:16AM

          by Subsentient (1111) on Friday August 07 2015, @04:16AM (#219420) Homepage Journal

          Doesn't chroot require root privileges to execute? How'd you pull that one off?

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          • (Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Friday August 07 2015, @04:49PM

            by mr_mischief (4884) on Friday August 07 2015, @04:49PM (#219630)

            Well it's called a chroot by the app author but it apparently doesn't actually use the chroot() system call. There's an app in the Play Store called GNURoot. It gives you a loopback of Debian, Fedora, Arch, Octave, or I think some others that run alongside your Android. It then gives you a shell within that loopback. You can't run setuid-root programs from within it unless you've actually rooted your Android system outside of it, though. It's still pretty handy, but isn't quite a fully functional system without rooting.

            I'm not sure I'm ready to root this particular phone just yet. If there's a hypervisor that lets me run an actual full OS with root inside that without rooting the main OS I'd probably use that. This meets my needs for having a pocketable GNU/Linux userland for the most part, though.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @09:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @09:59AM (#224325)

      Here.

      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm [google.com]

    • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Thursday August 27 2015, @03:48AM

      by melikamp (1886) on Thursday August 27 2015, @03:48AM (#228443) Journal
      Sleazy vendors are allergic to GPLv3, which is one of the best reasons to use it over v2. Their flat-out refusal to port GNU (which would be essentially effortless) is a clear indication that GPLv3 is working as intended.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 06 2015, @04:19PM

    by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 06 2015, @04:19PM (#219131) Journal

    Your TV probably runs on Linux.

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    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:08PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:08PM (#220313) Journal
      Depends a lot on the TV. Most Panasonic TVs run FreeBSD as do some Samsung ones. A lot of older ones run TRON or some other embedded OS. An increasing number run Android these days.
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