On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Tim Green wrote:
On 31 January 2012 20:23, Dan vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I currently have a fairly minimal Gentoo install in a chroot, on my ARM-based Android 'phone. The reason it's fairly minimal is that compiling additional packages is very slow.
Could you cross-compile from a faster PC? Plenty of posts like this one give tips: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-795194-start-0.html
My faster PC doesn't have enough free disc space for an extra set of binaries, libs etc. ;-).
Any reason you want a pure Linux rather than more phone oriented, more open than Android, Cyanogenmod?
What I really want from the distro is not Linux per se (the Gentoo install on my 'phone has no kernel nor udev of its own, for example) - it's standard open-source user-space stuff, like Firefox, Alpine, TeXlive, etc. It's Firefox in particular that's driving me to move to a binary distro - compiling xulrunner on the 'phone takes forever.