[H-GEN] Seeking smartphone OS wisdom

[Andrew Ridgway]

On 25/05/2014 5:46 AM, David Seikel wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 May 2014 23:16:21 +1000 Tomas Marko Miljenović
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.lildebi
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Hey,

First time posting to a list so let me know if I have done anything wrong.

There is also the option of Firefox OS. I think the company one of the 
companies that produces them is Spanish and called Geeksphone.

http://www.geeksphone.com/

I don't know if they ship to Australia but there is always the grey 
import option (google Australian Grey importers)

If the reason you don't want the big A is because of Google you can also 
use Android without Gapps, side load you're favourite APK's and have a 
phone with all the benefits of the fully developed Mobile OS without the 
draw cards of Google tracking.

If the reason you don't want the big A is to run full on X apps it might 
be worth installing SailfishOS (the Jolla OS) on a Nexus they will be 
releasing the code to do this soonish I think. I'm reasonably sure they 
have Xwayland in the code somewhere.

Cheers,
Andrew