How to port Oses to the pi?

[PalashTaneja]

Hi friends,
I was recently searching about Android ROMs and how to port a ROM to a device. For those who don't know it basically involves copying some folders and changing some configs. So I was wondering if there is a similar way of porting Oses to the pi


Waiting desperately for replies!

[jamesh]

Porting an OS is a very big job - not sure where you got the information about simply copying a few files - that simply isn't the case.

So porting an entirely new OS to the Pi would be man months/years of work.

I think you may be thinking of replacing one OS with another one that has already been ported.

[mahjongg]

Hi friends,
I was recently searching about Android ROMs and how to port a ROM to a device. For those who don't know it basically involves copying some folders and changing some configs. So I was wondering if there is a similar way of porting Oses to the pi

What you describe isn't porting a new OS to a device, but simply installing a new OS on a device.
Creating (porting) that OS is a completely different thing altogether.
Also in the case of Android ROM's its not a new OS, its simply a newer version of the same OS.

On a PI you do essentially the same thing simply by doing a

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sudo upgrade

[ric96]

Porting an OS is a very big job - not sure where you got the information about simply copying a few files - that simply isn't the case.

So porting an entirely new OS to the Pi would be man months/years of work.

I think you may be thinking of replacing one OS with another one that has already been ported.

Very true and building an os from that port requiers some serios hatdware.

Last time i tried to build chromium os for i386 took me around 3 hrs on a i3 3.3ghz 8gb system at 100% cpu usage!!