Re: Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

On 03/14/2011 06:24 PM, johhny_at_poland77 wrote:

or android is a good solution? can i run chrome on it? is it a "safe" distro?

I don't know for sure, but since Chrome and Android are products of Google,
it would really be surprising if Chrome wouldn't run. Also, since Android is
an offshoot of Linux, which is pretty safe, and besides, is very new, it's
likely that not much in the way of nasties is around as yet.

i'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'pretty safe' or 'not much in the way of nasties', but if you're talking about security holes or malicious software, i would call that naive:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-android-market-security.html

as an android user, i'm not saying the operating system is bad (i can point out issues with iphone as well - less so with rim).

(i read this after talking about all of the cool security issues we will see with mobile devices in the next six months: mobile botnets taking down cell networks, celebs getting recorded from their own phones, and so many other things. think of what a logic bomb could do on even 0.1% of us cell phones)

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