new old user
I wasn't in the list before but about February I installed Sven Ola's
Debian Kit found on f-droid. Used it a few months, was reasonably
happy with it, then the phone hardware blew up. I still have my SD
card with the Debian partition and a bunch of the original install
stuff, plus about 1.5 gb of old debs from it..
So, newer phone just rooted, bigger SD card, making decisions. I'd
like to recreate what I had I think but it had some rough edges like
direct hardware support was basically non-existant. No sound, GPS,
access to the phone's modem and video was done by running a VNC server
then an Android VNC client.
Meanwhile Ubuntu has what seems like an Android replacement. That's
probably too radical but has Debian managed to steal any of their
drivers? I tried Ubuntu about 2008 on an i386 for a week or so then
replaced it with Debian, I didn't like the dumbed-down aspect of it.
Mostly I'm an OpenBSD user but their ARM branch doesn't extend to
phones. I've also used Debian-arm on my Raspberry Pi, tried FreeBSD
but Debian was more mature. Maybe I just like seeing Synaptic work.
So what to install is the question. I liked having a full desktop
environment on a phone with the option to connect by VNC or ssh over
WiFi. Is there a new installer package for phones or should I salvage
what I've got?
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