On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:21 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > I'll try to organise a BoF about Debian (on) mobile at DebConf.
I suppose it has been a while since the last one at DebConf12: https://lists.debian.org/1345373756.2710.84.camel@chianamo > - Which hardware is available and runs (more or less) with > (more or less) free drivers? Phones, tablets, handhelds? I'd focus on stuff supported by Replicant, devices that are being upstreamed by vendors (Sony) or the community (N900/GTA04/etc). https://www.replicant.us/supported-devices.php > - How can Debian be installed on such devices, esp. by people > not used to patch their uboot? Often bootloaders are locked down and can't be modified. > - Which DE in Debian is most useful on a mobile? I.e. Must not > be too resource hungry and should be touch-friendly. IIRC, Enlightenment was fairly good last I tried it. Unfortunately the team packaging that for Debian isn't very active. > - Are useful applications missing from Debian? Which programs > work well on small screens? Can we compete with F-Droid? A lot of the apps from the OpenMoko days are dead upstream but still in Debian (like intone for music). I expect Ubuntu Touch or FirefoxOS or WebOS etc might be useful sources of apps, or perhaps extending the Android SDK packaging into packaging Android runtime parts and apps. > What else? If we start to discuss things here on the mailing > list, the better we are prepared in Canada :~) More on the wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile Probably a big thing is exploits needed to install Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Exploits > PS': Everybody is also invited to discuss in the MUC > xmpp:[email protected] Or the #debian-mobile IRC channel on OFTC. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
