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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by carussell on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:46PM (#10861743)
Why? Serious question.

And what do you mean by "Linux"? Would GNU coreutils and a terminal be sufficient, or is there something else you need?

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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by pixelbeat on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:33AM (#10864015)
Yes something like termux might be a sufficient addition to "android". Note a standard GNU coreutils build is about 15M, though one can configure to use a multi-call binary like busybox, reducing the install size to about 1M. See the coreutils-single subpackage in Fedora rawhide for example: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/coreutils.git/commit...
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Re:RemixOS – Android for the desktop by fredrikfornwall on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:26PM (#10866990)
When you 'apt install coreutils' in Termux you get coreutils installed as a multi-call binary to save space. 1556 kB for the package in total (including man pages).
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