Re: Debian natively on Android device
On יום חמישי, 2 בפברואר 2017 13:09:39 IST Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I'm interested in the problem of running Debian on an Android device
> >
> > [...]
>
> Thanks to all who kindly replied, it did help. Now I can see everything a
> bit more clearly. I'll try to summarize what seems important to me about
> the issue.
>
> 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?
>
Good.
If you just want to run the distro, any hardware with support in the kernel
will do it.
If you want a phone, then Ubuntu and Jolla have already done that work. Need
support for the hardware, of course.
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