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linule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Very interesting and informative, thanks for explaining. My understanding was that UT just conveniently copied/reused some hardware interfacing components from Android, since Android uses also a Linux kernel too and why reinvent the wheel, especially with the plethora of phone manufacturers available, which you really don’t really want to do again. But I didn’t know about it using Android kernel, or needing an existing Android install, which sound indeed like deal breakers. There might be a good reason, relating the reuse of components, but clearly out of my depth here.

I still think that it is important to standarize a canonical Linux core, or something like that, that can unify more development efforts, or if not needed, at least a marketing presence to raise funds. E.g politicians usually don’t understand a word of tech, and you’d need something like “The open source interoperable alternative to Android and iOS” to be appealing instead of coming with Alpine, Debian, etc. which will sound just like geeky and fringe and subsequently not get substantial funding.

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