Re: Debian natively on Android device
On יום חמישי, 2 בפברואר 2017 8:33:56 IST Carl Fink wrote:
> 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).
Debian distro for Android (that runs under android in its own chroot or
equivelant) -- several on Play. Read the recent XDA-Developers article.
The poster wanted to replace Android with something better -- Debian. Ubuntu
(Debian-based) has done all the work if one has a compatable device.
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