Gentoo On Android 64-Bit Sees New Release After 2+ Years

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gentoo On Android 64-Bit Sees New Release After 2+ Years

Gentoo's Project Android is out with a new stage3 Android prefix tarball for those wanting to enjoy a Gentoo experience atop a rooted Android device...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gentoo-On-Android-64-bit-2020

[elatllat]

Or use Termux + optionaly any arm64 distro.

[ed31337]

I've given up on Android. Google just sucks too much to keep devoting my time to their platform. Why would I risk installing some shady Chinese binary-only rootkit on my devices just so I can open them up enough to run real Linux?

Instead, I'm running 64-bit Gentoo Linux on my Raspberry Pi 4 and loving every minute of it. No rootkit required.

[PluMGMK]

In fairness, the requirement to use shady binary-only rootkits depends on what device you have, but yes, even that is a very poor state of affairs.