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Get me Bash

Posted Nov 21, 2012 8:43 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts by neilbrown
Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts

I don't know for our editor, but for me "closer to Linux" would be "including GNU userland tools" and "allowing me to do things from the console". Your fourth point more or less. Right now the shell is almost unusable.

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Get me Bash

Posted Nov 21, 2012 9:25 UTC (Wed) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]

Well adding a debian or other generic linux chroot for command line apps is quite trivial.

I also have hard time seeing value in having "something closer to linux". There is pretty much no touch-screen friendly apps for linux desktop.