Showing posts with label linux kernel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linux kernel. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Welcome Back GNU! My Revenge on Android

In my last post I discussed that the lack of GNU on android devices was limiting the software available and didn't bring new libraries to linux. Unfortunately for me I don't have a MeeGo device and am stuck with the Java beast.

One of the things that bothered my the most was that I could not sync my music using Unison like I do across my other three computers. If I was on MeeGo it would be as simple as apt-get install unison.

The solution for this was installing GNU on my phone, the basic concept is that you have a Linux kernel so if you install the user-land you can simply chroot into that environment and enjoy the true GNU/Linux experience.