Sugar in a chroot?

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Wed Aug 7 00:37:11 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Chris Ball <chris at printf.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 07 2013, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> 2) If we can run Android on the XO-4, then Fedora/Sugar can run in a
>> chroot. That gives us Sugar and Android on the XO-4.
>
> Well, if it was that easy, we'd all be running Ubuntu desktops on our
> Android phones already, right?
>
> The graphics system gets in the way -- you can't run X on top of
> Android, yet Gtk depends on X, and Sugar depends on Gtk.
>

Thanks. I've been running Debian on a Android phone, but I access
GNOME over VNC from a different computer. Wonder if a VNC viewer on
the Android phone itself would show me the UI.

cheers,
Sameer

> - Chris.
> --
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>
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