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Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughtsAndroid 4.2, tablets, and related thoughtsPosted Nov 21, 2012 15:08 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)In reply to: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts by neilbrown Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts
> I'm wandering what "closer to traditional Linux" really means in the context of a tablet.
For the low-level user-space, give me glibc, coreutils and bash in a decent terminal app and I'm satisfied. Systemd, dbus and (dpkg or rpm) would be a big bonus, but is by no means required.
The uid scheme and windowing system (Surfaceflinger, Wayland, X11, etc) is irrelevant to me, as long as both Qt and GTK+ works on it, and you can launch programs from the terminal inheriting it's environment.
I'd also want an official way of gaining a root prompt, but to me that is not about "being closer to traditional Linux" but about device ownership (if it's my computer, I should be able to do what I want with it).
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Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts Posted Nov 22, 2012 20:41 UTC (Thu) by mastro (subscriber, #72665) [Link]
Many traditional command line tools are available from Google Play.
The official way to gain root (for Nexus devices, some other manufacturers ship modified Android versions that may make this harder) is documented in the official Android documentation: http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html (unlock the bootloader using fastboot and install sudo from Google Play).
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