Re: interesting: Linux on Android
From: dsr@randomstring.org
Not yet a Debian on Android, but:
https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/50-days-of-postmarketOS/
summarizes the first 50 days of building Linux directly for
several smartphones, with the intention of eventually getting
them fully functional. Their work could lead to a Debian
flavor/spin/whatever it"s called now.
Personally, I would be pretty happy to run Debian on a phone
instead of the giant pile of Java sitting on an old kernel that
currently constitutes Android.
-dsr-
20 days of me trying to do something to an unrooted tablet and
the verdict is that you can not make a computer system out of
cat dish (used to be frisbie). For a rooted system you pay big
bucks, might as well get one of those gadgets with free open
architecture. At least you will know what your hardware will
be transmitting to your "enemies".
On an unrooted device with secret hw-code all you can do is
run something within an android compartment/sandbox.
More than half the machine's resources are already occupied
running the sandbox area (like gnuroot or termux). Start with
a cheap low resource machine and by the time you get gnuroot
ready to direct a Gui to a GFXserver program, either the one or
the other crashes with lack of resources. .... Then you open
your windows if you are lucky and 90% of the stuff will not run
in this pseudo linux/debian environment.
Systemd is having a fit as it sweeps most of the left over resources
before you even run anything.
It is amazing how something SO STUPID can be marketed to
become as esential as underware. My 6510i still sounds crystal
clear, and does all a phone is meant to do.
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