Wine on Android

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iuser
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Re: Wine on Android

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The first intel atom based (x86) android mobiles are on the market. How about them and WINE?
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Re: Wine on Android

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iuser wrote:The first intel atom based (x86) android mobiles are on the market. How about them and WINE?
Thunderbird wrote:No, it is not possible. The main issue (next that you need a x86 cpu which likely your netbook has) is that Android is not a typical Linux system. The OS uses the Linux kernel but apart from that it uses very different libraries, it doesn't use X and so on.
But you can at least root such a device and/or install Linux on it to run Wine.
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Re: Wine on Android

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it was done using busybox and others to turn Android into ubuntu-like, then using Qemu and binfmt:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... 506&page=5
(it includes an image)
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Re: Wine on Android

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That link is refering to an Armel version of Wine...

but some of the newer Android smartphones ( ie, ASUS Padfone Mini w/ 7" tablet dock ) are running Intel Atom processors & since they're in the same family, wouldn't it be easier to target this market first?
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