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Dion Moult
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Dion Moult writes thinkMoult, a personal blog at thinkmoult.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers running Linux on Samsung Galaxy phones. The one comment describes a similar Gentoo chroot setup on an older Nexus phone and does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dion Moult's blog is hosted on thinkMoult.com. Dion Moult works as an architect and software developer, and writes articles about Gentoo Linux, CG art, open-source, plants, robotics, digital privacy, and GIS.
What Hacker News says?
I did something like this (shared kernel and chroot) on an old Nexus S back in 2012 with Gentoo. You can use a precompiled stage3 tarball which contains the fundamental filesystem layout and utilities (for the target architecture), and then for anything else that you need, you just use Portage (Gentoo's package manager) to compile stuff for you. Not super practical in terms of battery life and time if you're constan…
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