Hello all!
Just really wanted to ask a quick and simple question really. Does anyone know what os the pinephone/community edition os will be based on? I only ask as I was looking at a video on youtube ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MXOgb-U2jI
but as I watched something didn't quite seem right. Sure the phone is running ubuntu touch but something just well - it looked just a little bit "android-ish" if you can see what I mean. And lo and behold about 4 mins into the video I see in the file manager a directory called "Android". So .... is the pinephone similar to the Aquaris E5? That old phone ran ubuntu touch but you couldn't use it in the same way as "normal" ubuntu (you couldn't even run apt-get update was one of the comments I heard back at that time - !). And in the end it was revealed that "ubuntu" was just a re-jigged "ubuntu" running in an android chroot. It was pretty ..... terrible. :-( and you're still tied in to google spying and survellience.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/bq-launches-the-...tu-edition
So is the pinephone just running "ubuntu" in a chroot but quitely running android below that? Only reason I ask is I don't want yet-another android spy device and really don't want to get stung a second time (I did buy the E5 back in the day x.x ).
ljones
Just really wanted to ask a quick and simple question really. Does anyone know what os the pinephone/community edition os will be based on? I only ask as I was looking at a video on youtube ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MXOgb-U2jI
but as I watched something didn't quite seem right. Sure the phone is running ubuntu touch but something just well - it looked just a little bit "android-ish" if you can see what I mean. And lo and behold about 4 mins into the video I see in the file manager a directory called "Android". So .... is the pinephone similar to the Aquaris E5? That old phone ran ubuntu touch but you couldn't use it in the same way as "normal" ubuntu (you couldn't even run apt-get update was one of the comments I heard back at that time - !). And in the end it was revealed that "ubuntu" was just a re-jigged "ubuntu" running in an android chroot. It was pretty ..... terrible. :-( and you're still tied in to google spying and survellience.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/bq-launches-the-...tu-edition
So is the pinephone just running "ubuntu" in a chroot but quitely running android below that? Only reason I ask is I don't want yet-another android spy device and really don't want to get stung a second time (I did buy the E5 back in the day x.x ).
ljones