Ubuntu is just another android shell ! (or announcing the container flip)

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> It was often claimed that due to the fact that Ubuntu runs in a chroot
> under android this just makes it another "android shell" ... i can
> assure you this isn't the case anymore, since as of today we have
> switched to a new image model ! 

Congrats on achieving this switch!  The closer we bring our Touch images to
a standard Ubuntu build, the more excited I am about our convergence story. 
I look forward to the day when our android compatibility layer is reduced to
a handful of upstart jobs running on Ubuntu. ;-)

> We run adbd on the Ubuntu side, so you will be able to use the "adb
> shell" command from your PC to get into the running system.

Running adb and getting bash - ahhh, what a relief.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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