On יום חמישי, 2 בפברואר 2017 13:09:39 IST Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm interested in the problem of running Debian on an Android device > > > > [...] > > Thanks to all who kindly replied, it did help. Now I can see everything a > bit more clearly. I'll try to summarize what seems important to me about > the issue. > > 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? > Good.
If you just want to run the distro, any hardware with support in the kernel will do it. If you want a phone, then Ubuntu and Jolla have already done that work. Need support for the hardware, of course.