If Android would only a little bit better,
If Android would only a little bit better,
Posted Mar 24, 2015 22:31 UTC (Tue) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)Parent article: Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google (Forbes)
I'm using CyanogenMod since some years. Of course, without any proprietary apps from Google nor anyone else. F-Droid.org is sufficient for me.
But Android is in many aspects so horrible compared to classic Linux. If there were a telephone friendly UI on top of Debian (or any other standard distro), how great would that be...
Posted Mar 24, 2015 23:17 UTC (Tue)
by The_Barbarian (guest, #48152)
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Posted Mar 25, 2015 2:04 UTC (Wed)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Unfortunately the hardware support in mainline Linux probably won't allow you to run Debian/etc on most devices and probably the particular Android fork of Linux for your device will never get updated and probably introduces some security issues or other bugs in new driver code. That is changing slowly and the N900 and GTA04 appear to be best supported in mainline. I'm betting the Neo900 will be the best mobile device for Free Software distribution enthusiasts once there are enough pre-orders.
http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/
In terms of telephony middleware there are FSO (recently seeing a revival) and oFono. In terms of finger-friendly UIs there are SHR, QtMoko and others.
https://github.com/freesmartphone/
If Android would only a little bit better,
If Android would only a little bit better,
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
http://elinux.org/N900
http://gta04.org/
http://neo900.org/
http://shr-project.org/
http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/