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Originally Posted by HtheB View Post
Please don't bash things without knowing the facts
Please notice the facts!

gerbick pointed you to another thread about the exact same topic, in that you actually participated before creating this one.
There I linked an article at pro-linux.de, a small but reputable news website about Linux.
In that article it is clearly stated that another Linux distro is to be run on top of Samsung's host OS, which basically leaves two options on how to implement this:

1. Run a full-fledged VM: This would allow even a true FLOSS system (including guest kernel) to be run inside the VM, regardless of how proprietary the host OS is. However, this comes with a quite large performance penalty, that's basically no option on a smartphone.
2. Don't virtualize the kernel, just set up another user land on top of the existing host kernel. There are different ways to implement this, with different impacts on performance, but not on openess, the lightest one being a plain chroot. Such a system can never be more open than the underlying host kernel, which in Samsungs case is about as overtly proprietary as proprietary can get without being absolutely proprietary.


Edit:
Another article from a reputable german news site. [1] There it is said, that the default Linux distribution is Ubuntu 16.04 with the Mate desktop, which indicates that there is no 3D acceleration inside the Ubuntu environment.

This all fits the general picture of it being a partly virtualization of the Ubuntu userland on top of the Android kernel.
As I said in the other thread, it's based on the same principles like Easy Debian, and it will suffer the same fate, once Samsung stops upgrading the Android kernel.


[1] https://www.golem.de/news/samsung-li...11-137614.html

Last edited by sulu; 2018-11-09 at 09:55.
 

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