bpt11@sh.itjust.works to LinuxEnglish · 1 month agoDo any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down11
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareDo any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be?bpt11@sh.itjust.works to LinuxEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squaredavelAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoLots of distros don’t use systemd, and a few non-AOSP distros don’t use GNU userland or glibc, Alpine for one.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoJust saying what some guy told me. It is also a highly modified kernel, extremely reduced. They do all filesystem stuff in userspace for example, which is pretty cool. And they add a ton of garbage out of tree drivers.
Lots of distros don’t use systemd, and a few non-AOSP distros don’t use GNU userland or glibc, Alpine for one.
Just saying what some guy told me.
It is also a highly modified kernel, extremely reduced. They do all filesystem stuff in userspace for example, which is pretty cool. And they add a ton of garbage out of tree drivers.