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All these new OSs to try out and develop for ... has anyone attempted a boot manager for them? I'd love to have a single device rocking all the open-source efforts - Android, FxOS, Tizen, Jolla, Ubuntu. I believe at least some of these have been able to run on various Nexus devices, so should be possible?

I realise multi-booting isn't practical for end-users, but very useful for developers and tech evaluators while the Cambrian explosion of mobile OSs plays out.




I see, thanks. What I'm really looking for is a single image or script that would automatically flash the device with a bundle of pre-installed OSs. Probably doesn't exist yet.


Once you have installed the modified recovery and bootloader, there's a recovery option where you can queue up as many images as you like. There's also a app to make things even easier: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.m...




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