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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: 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.

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  • (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.