Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:59:15 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?) Message-ID: <20110725165915.GB87314@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <4E2CB85C.1090106@dichotomia.fr> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107190736560.27391@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <CAGy-%2Bi_phtNbTh7SHhockqTuGrv%2Bd2ZLn0_6A9aKEySYO0MgTw@mail.gmail.com> <375e5bcac1acd4b781ef97bd1718e689.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <CAGy-%2Bi_aS4U_yUSLcesjyeCj2PBOL4A=UzXvYYKF1SqujN5vsg@mail.gmail.com> <D1A05C81F0C50B3453441AAB@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110721161356.GI5129@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110721165801.GC69370@guilt.hydra> <4e2c2125.yS7H/hVUm1ebTrPE%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E2CB85C.1090106@dichotomia.fr>
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--lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:27:08AM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > > Most androids phone already do have a quite useful and complete shell, > the main problem is that most phone are actually root locked. Namely > you cannot get any access to nay interesting without getting an "access > denied". There are tools that will break this "protection" and grant > you root access on the phone, but they are to be used with caution, and > most of the time you must first degrade your OS to an older version in > order for them to work. It's worse than that. Android does not, by default, give access to some very basic tools to which even non-root users are accustomed to having access. Consider cat, for instance. >=20 > So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual "vendor=20 > lock" stuff. There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4toOMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW98wCg7NenGpfM4H4X+SFdic4todke hCEAn1n7gP2XKrEUaCHbryy45MsoTJOT =5EqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2--
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