| From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> | On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 01:44:35PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote: | > Nice android box. | > Well at least you know it will boot and run linux. | | No, you know it will boot and run some android build. Maybe you can | even get the source code to the kernel (although tons of these small | media devices don't give a shit about GPL violations). As I understand it, Fedora and probably Ubuntu and debian can run on Linus Kernel releases. I would have thought that it would be easy to plant a conventional Linux distro on top of Android's Linux kernels. That turns out not to be the case. It has been tried by Ubuntu with apparently much effort and limited success. I don't know what the key problems are. One issue is video. Not only are the video interfaces proprietary, but for Android, no X is needed. They use something called SurfaceFlinger. There have been attempts to layer Wayland or Mir(?) on top of SurfaceFlinger.