[H-GEN] Seeking smartphone OS wisdom

[David Seikel]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 23:16:21 +1000 Tomas Marko Miljenović
<TomasM at tomasm.tk> wrote:

> I've looked at the option of buying a handset running Android, and
> (co-)installing another OS. So far, that doesn't look very promising
> if I need to use it as an actual phone. Has anyone here actually
> tried this with currently-available phones, and found it to be a
> success?

There's many options for running ordinary Linux distros inside Android,
generally chroot based.  Not so many options for running X based
applications though, but they also exist, if a bit clunky.

Lil' Debi: Debian Installer is the one I eventually picked to install
on my Android.  It sets up enough so you can debootstrap Debian in a
chroot.  Basically Debian as just another Android phone app, you can
still use the rest of Android while it's running, including the phone
features.  I use it to ssh in and use rsync to back up my phone, but I
plan on using it for other things.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.lildebi

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