On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:17 AM John Vaughters via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: > > >You know that any Android phone is running Linux under it's crap and that > >you can run a linux shell just like a chromebook can, right? > > I have not given the proper due diligence to android, but I HATE Android as a > platform. I have been dying to get a decent linux distribution on a smart > phone. To call Android linux is a perturbation at a minimum. Yes it runs the > kernel, but it is a bloody nightmare to use it as typical linux distribution. > They have hijacked every aspect of what you expect from a normal linux > distribution. > > I have played around with it enough to have ditched the idea of using smart > phones and all there goodies for a low cost with Android as the OS. > > Nobody is reliably hacking this idea of Android phones to load say a debian > distro. Ubuntu tried and failed. > It seems it is still alive in some way or form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
> Pine being the latest that I have seen to make this attempt, but they are not > too cheap either. I mean relative to say buying a $30 out of style brand new > phone and using all those great sensors and camera and screen. I was lured > into that temptation and came out frustrated, but not totally unusable, just > not wanting to spend the time to jump through hoops for something that should > be trivial. Like reliably running processes. > > Have you sensed irritation? Well your right. `,~) > > 2 cents worth half a pence on a good day. > > John Vaughters > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
