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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, den 04.11.2013, 17:40 -0200 schrieb Cláudio Sampaio:

> 
> The "Magic" of open-source is that I can use the device as I can see
> fit. And I want to use it as regular Ubuntu, installing and
> deinstalling as I see fit and with root access. Via ssh if needed. Do
> I have to abdicate from it? Ubuntu Touch is of no value to me if I
> cannot use it as a real system - to me it seems a locked-down system
> with read-only root partition is not a real system.
your mon wont need a writable system, as 99% of the other users wont ...
> 
> 
> 
> Please say it is not so. The very reason I am an enthusiast of this
> system is due to the power of having a real linux system in my
> cellphone, just as I had with my (now dead) N900.

"it is not so" ;)

the image comes with a developer mode (which hopefully will even have a
UI switch to enable writability and/or adb/ssh access in 14.04)

due to the nature of our over the air update mechanism that allows
binary diff updates (which makes updating very fast compared to updating
single packages) the system has to be readonly, if you want binary
diffs, the core system this diff was made against has to be identical on
both, the phone and the server. for normal use of the system with click
package apps which live in their own, locked down writable space ...

the system we provide on cdimage for nexus devices will always have a
developer mode since this is the mode we use to develop it ;) 
(i cant speak for vendor-preinstalled phones, i can imagine there this
mode will not exist for endusers)

ciao
	oli

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