I'll have to give this a look sometime (though I'll likely hold out until they have it stable on Nexus 7). Adding a 540MB swap file is pretty crazy though. I'

I'll have to give this a look sometime (though I'll likely hold out until they have it stable on Nexus 7). Adding a 540MB swap file is pretty crazy though. I'd rather not have stuff swapping to the (relatively slow and serialized) eMMC flash. They could probably look into having the recovery partition kexec their kernel to chain-load it, rather than replace it entirely. The kernel source is readily available, as are init and the recovery/updater userspace tools. I still think the holy grail here is to just run a stock "classic" Linux userland under Android -- park it in a container, do an X11/Mir/Wayland/whatever port against the SurfaceFlinger, and make Linux native apps first class citizens running alongside everything else. No need for dual-booting or other awkward shuffling about. It'd take some work, but it's entirely doable.