Re: new old user
re: new old user
FSO yes, very little of it worked for me but it looked promising.
Nasty crashes occasionally as I recall.
The problem with Sven Ola's Debian Kit is that it seems to be
abandoned, or maybe he just gave up the domain name. There was the
website and a small repository of debs. I have
andromize_0.2-3_all.deb and andromize-lxde_0.2-1_all.deb from there, I
don't know what else he might have had. Also
org.dyndns.sven_ola.debian_kit_5.apk and debian-kit-1-5.shar. The apk
mostly seems to run some checks on whether you're ready/eligible to
install and provides install instructions. The shar file has some
binaries, scripts, and a debootstrap. The andromize debs I'm not sure
what they do.
Somebody started a github project at https://github.com/S0AndS0/Debian-Kit-Mods
I remember you had to modify a script in 2 places to pull the current
Debian version because it was old, I mentioned that in a post to the
f-droid forums which I can't get to right now.
I'm fumbling through the install now. The shar file tries to call sed
in a few places and that fails. It has a busybox in it but I may have
already had one from somewhere else installed last time because I
don't remember this problem. The Android chmod doesn't do much useful
either.
On 12/18/15, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Alan Corey wrote:
>
>> No, my phones aren't mainstream.
>
> When I said mainline Linux, I meant the version of Linux published here:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/
>
> That version of Linux doesn't support almost all of the Android phones
> that exist.
>
> Android phones (mainstream or not) all use their own custom version of
> Linux.
>
>> Replacing the Android with something else isn't what I had in mind.
>> What I had wasn't chrooted either, it had its own partition but could
>> access Android's files.
>
> Sounds like you just want to reinstall DebianKit?
>
> https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.dyndns.sven_ola.debian_kit
>
> It appears that Lil' Debi lets you access Android's files.
>
> I guess it would be fairly simple to replicate at least part of what
> DebianKit does but manually using debootstrap or cdebootstrap.
>
> Also, maybe one of these helps:
>
> https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=Debian&fdpage=1&page_id=0
> https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
>
>> There was the start of a line of phone management stuff that appeared
>> in Synaptic, I forget the name of it, it was out of Europe I think.
>
> I guess you are thinking of FSO or oFono, which are both in Debian:
>
> http://www.freesmartphone.org/
> https://01.org/ofono
>
> If not, maybe you are remembering SHR, Maemo, MeeGo, Tizen or one of
> the other GNU/Linux for phones projects.
>
>> Motorola puts their stuff on github ... maybe that'll help with drivers.
>
> That won't help unless they also disentangle their drivers from
> Android's changes to Linux, clean up the driver code, submit it to
> mainline Linux, clean up the code some more, rinse, repeat, rinse,
> repeat and eventually get it accepted. AFAICT there aren't many phone
> vendors that do that, the only ones I know of are Goldelico/Neo900,
> although that is changing very slowly but since there are millions of
> lines of code per device that aren't in Linux mainline, it is a long
> process.
>
> http://neo900.org/
> http://goldelico.com/
> http://elinux.org/CE_Workgroup_Device_Mainlining_Project
>
> For more Debian Mobile info, check out the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
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