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Maemo (full-fledged Debian-based mobile distro, now dead, thanks Elop) user here.

Is Ubuntu Phone really running a full-fledged desktop-as-we-know-it GNU/Linux-derived distro? Because, after I heard about bionic+libhybris stuff and some chroot kludges I start highly doubt it. It's as "Ubuntu desktop" as chrooted Ubuntu install on Android, except for more optimized (compared to VNC-to-localhost, huh) video pipeline.

My perception is that it's neither typical-GNU neither Android but something partially (in)compatible to both.

Would be really nice if I'm wrong on this matter.



Your "wrong", but only b/c the container flip happened recently. They had the Android chroot thing to get going quickly, from what I can gather.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-July/037...

Ubuntu Touch is fully Ubuntu and can take advantage of all that goodness.




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