On יום חמישי, 2 בפברואר 2017 8:33:56 IST Carl Fink wrote: > 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).
Debian distro for Android (that runs under android in its own chroot or equivelant) -- several on Play. Read the recent XDA-Developers article. The poster wanted to replace Android with something better -- Debian. Ubuntu (Debian-based) has done all the work if one has a compatable device.