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Re: Debian natively on Android device

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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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Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 21:20 +0100
  Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 21:40 +0100
    Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 14:20 +0100
      Re: Debian natively on Android device <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-02 14:40 +0100
      Re: Debian natively on Android device Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2017-02-02 14:40 +0100
        Re: Debian natively on Android device David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 15:40 +0100
      Re: Debian natively on Android device David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 14:50 +0100
  Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 00:50 +0100
    Re: Debian natively on Android device Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 02:30 +0100
      Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 08:40 +0100
    Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 15:50 +0100
      Re: Debian natively on Android device <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-01 16:10 +0100
        Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 21:00 +0100
          Re: Debian natively on Android device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-01 21:20 +0100
            Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 22:00 +0100
              Re: Debian natively on Android device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-01 22:20 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 22:30 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 22:30 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-02 10:00 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-02-02 10:40 +0100
          Re: Debian natively on Android device <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-01 21:50 +0100
          Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 21:50 +0100
            Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 22:20 +0100
              Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 22:40 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-02 10:00 +0100
                Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 20:30 +0100
        Re: Debian natively on Android device Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 21:10 +0100
          Re: Debian natively on Android device deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 21:50 +0100

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