Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/24/run-android-on-your-nintendo-s.html
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I mean, android IS linux…
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If you can run android, there are a couple nice MAME emulators that are available.
I mean… not quite. “linux”, properly, refers to the kernel. Android runs using linux as its base hardware interface. On its own it’ll just sit there, handling low-level IO and managing memory and whatever else was compiled in.
There are some GNU bits and pieces between the kernel and android, but it’s very much not a GNU/Linux system. “Linux” in the sense of “getting linux to run on things”, generally means “linux and at least a barebones GNU install”.
It’s a pedantic distinction, but distinctions are important in tech.
Also, in this case I suspect it wasn’t that hard to do, since the switch runs FreeBSD anyway.
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Yes, I meant strictly in the kernel sense.
If this is part of a project to run Doom on the Switch, um…
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It’s strange to me they didn’t let us use the Switch more as a tablet, I’d love to draw on it, or even just have few app like a calendar, maps, things like that.
Weirdly enough one time I catch public wifi in a train and manage to almost have a normal browsing secession.
I couldn’t find Doom, but it will run Quake
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