[mcpherrinm]

From what I see, it looks like this still uses the same kernel that's running on the phone. Thus you can't do anything but a Linux system, since that's what Android runs.

[hackuser]

From the article:

"Android Open Source Project-based Maru provides you Android Lollipop for your smartphone and includes a Debian Linux within an LXC Linux Container for the desktop environment"

[ashitlerferad]

The author of the article is clearly confusing the Android version of the Linux kernel with the Debian userspace that is running under that kernel.