Linux On Droid?

[Melon Bread]

Now I Know You Can Out Linux On The G1(Re:Gnome, KDE, IceWM or LXDE Desktop on your Android! - AndroidFanatic Community Forums), Was Wondering if there was any project for this on the droid?

[tktouch12]

well android pretty much is linux, but im sure its possible, but i dont think it has really been worked on for the droid yet

[jasonb]

Yea, Android is Linux.

[Melon Bread]

well android pretty much is linux, but im sure its possible, but i dont think it has really been worked on for the droid yet

Yes Android Is Based ON The Linux Kernal, But It Can Not Run Linux Apps (wich is my goal), not big ones just minor ones.

[GiantDroid]

Now I Know You Can Out Linux On The G1(Re:Gnome, KDE, IceWM or LXDE Desktop on your Android! - AndroidFanatic Community Forums), Was Wondering if there was any project for this on the droid?

I was just wondering this today. I had seen that link before but it was talking about a rooted G1. Now that the Droid has been rooted, it should be doable.

[Melon Bread]

Thats what I was thinking since the Droid's hardware is > than the G1's

[adrynalyne]

Actually, its all semantics.

Linux isn't an OS, its a kernel. The surrounding applications compose the OS, and what we perceive today as "Linux" is actually GNU/Linux. So going on that premise, and that there are so many pieces it does share with GNU/Linux, its closer to the "Linux" OS than you might think.

Even the gcc compiler is present. It would probably be less of a task to find what dependencies are missing for running particular Linux apps and porting those to run on Android, than porting an entire distribution of GNU/Linux.

[Melon Bread]

I know, I Said Its A Kernal
Hmmm, How Would I Go about Installing The dependencies on me droid?

[adrynalyne]

Find an application, research its dependencies, see if they are present, if not, find a way to install them if at all possible. You obviously have to be rooted to do this, because every CLI app under the sun is locked down....

I'm no expert, but if I was looking for something to do, thats the path I would go.

[Melon Bread]

I mean what are the commands via terminal (I am novice to linux, I have been using linux mint for about 1.5 months, and everything I install is a .deb file)