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Jailbreaking does unlock a lot of functionality that should be in a PC. Being able to SSH into the system and use unix tools opens a lot of possibilities. Jus
by wavephorm 15y ago
Jailbreaking does unlock a lot of functionality that should be in a PC. Being able to SSH into the system and use unix tools opens a lot of possibilities. Just being able to rsync music over wifi to my iPod and scrapping iTunes is worth it.
Apple's underlying Darwin system works great on a mobile device. I don't own an Android, but afaik it's underlying Linux system is not as robust as Darwin. So where else do you go for a Linux/Unix based smartphone/tablet?
Where are the Linux tablets, and where is the support from the Linux community for such hardware?
- orangecat 15y agoI don't own an Android, but afaik it's underlying Linux system is not as robust as Darwin. What are you basing that on? You can easily install Unix tools on Android devices. Here's a complete development environment that doesn't even require rooting: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spart...
- wavephorm 15y agoI've had an impression that because of Android's abstractions you didn't have the same "bare metal" access, such that scripting languages have to be run inside a container app: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
- guelo 15y agoYour impression is wrong, you can get access to the full Linux shell.
- fpgeek 15y agoIt depends on what you want to do. Scripting Layer for Android is about letting scripting languages access Android APIs and services. In that case, you need some sort of container / runtime to talk to the rest of the Android/Dalvik world, but there's nothing that prevents you from getting at the bare metal, if that's what you want to do.