Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

  • illi@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I was wondering… on their website they say it can run Android apps - is this just via Waydroid, or is there something else in place?

    • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      More or less the former; they use a fork of Waydroid called Andromeda (one of the developers used to work on Droidian, I believe); repo.'s at https://github.com/FuriLabs/andromeda. So, you know, it works very similarly but it’s not technically the same thing.

      It’s not particularly easy to find (technically, you can get to it from their website but I think the lack of Google bothering to list it in search results makes most people miss it; I definitely did until it was mentioned in the Telegram/Matrix chat) but they do have an FAQ page that has a lot of details. It’s not always as detailed as one might want (so feel free to ask me anything as I’m running the device from day-to-day) but it does have quite a bit; here’s their section regarding running Android app.s: https://furilabs.com/faq/#faq-240

      • illi@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Thanks for answering! I actually just tried out Droidian and was blown away that it runs Waydroid in a way that ypu can have Android and Linux apps pretty seamlessly side by side. Up until now I was under impression that to use Waydroid you need to open it and run apps that way. But nope! It boggles my mind this is not talked about more.