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). -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct!
