bpt11@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 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-up163arrow-down11
arrow-up162arrow-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 Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month ago I can imagine that theirs is safer and more suited for targeted devices. Linux is extremely generalistic and has a ton of cruft. For targeted devices so is Gentoo. Their edge is having access to proprietary drivers. But I have never looked at their code or tried to port a Linux app to Android. The #Krita devs might have some insight here. If it’s written in portable C you can use the Android NDK/SDK to cross-compile it for the 4 archs they support. I do it at work.
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoNot an actual lock-in as they (still) provide tools to cross-compile and the source is (still) available, more like a vendor push-out if you insist.
For targeted devices so is Gentoo. Their edge is having access to proprietary drivers.
If it’s written in portable C you can use the Android NDK/SDK to cross-compile it for the 4 archs they support. I do it at work.
So how is this vendor lockin?
Not an actual lock-in as they (still) provide tools to cross-compile and the source is (still) available, more like a vendor push-out if you insist.