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They'll never go that route because Google wants full control on your device. But yeah fundamentally, there's no technical reason why Android couldn't be a norm
by realusername 2y ago
They'll never go that route because Google wants full control on your device. But yeah fundamentally, there's no technical reason why Android couldn't be a normal Linux distribution.
- pjmlp 2y agoLots of features missing from upstream.
- fsflover 2y agoWhich ones? My GNU/Linux phone works fine.
- pjmlp 2y agoProject Treble, Rust in the kernel, for example.
- realusername 2y agoSure but it's Google, it's not like they don't have enough engineers to upstream what they need.
- pjmlp 2y agoWhy bother, they already use Rust, compile with clang, and have a stable driver ABI without drama.
- realusername 2y agoWe are back to square one and what I said originally yes, they don't want to do it because they want full control on your device. There's no technical reason why Android can't just be another Linux distribution. There's no technical reason why you could not boot into an OS from a usb key on your phone like a normal computer. There's no technical reason why the play services have more rights than the actual owner of the phone. It's all about who controls your device. Android follows a "look, don't touch" model and will continue to be this way as long as possible on Google's side.