Re: Debian natively on Android device
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:09:39PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Deloptes, thanks for your indications about Sailfish project and Jolla phones,
> they are very interesting, but what I was looking for is the possibility of
> running Debian on those devices, not other OSs. So Ubuntu pre-installed is not
> either what I wish. As far as I understand, the capability for Debian - and
> other Linux distros - to install on smartphones and tablets could improve, and
> probably will, more and more in the next months and years. Some people have
> already experienced Ubuntu, and maybe Debian, on some `WinPads'. But, as far
> as I understand, this was possible because those WinPads have, at start, like
> normal computers, the possibility of choosing to boot from usb pendrive - or at
> least from SDcard. So the main problem in trying the installation on other -
> Android - devices is probably this, that they don't have that possibility.
> Right? Or instead they do have it in some way?
Android devices almost always have provision for "reflashing" with a new
operating system. If you root it (gain the ability to operate as superuser)
you can install an arbitrary OS. There are Free Software ROMs out there,
like LineageOS (http://lineageos.org/), and in principle there's no reason
somoene couldn't create a Debian distro for Android, but it would be an
enormous job and nobody has actually done so (that I know about).
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