Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

[scott]

On 03/16/2011 11:00 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
> Jay Boyson wrote:
>> Another option is meego.
>>
>> http://www.meego.com
>
> Be a bit worried that once you learn all about Meego you could be 
> orphaned: Meego is in turmoil.  Nokia is the big champion of Meego and 
> they themselves don't know if they like it.  They recently chose to 
> use Microsoft's new phone OS.  It sounds like Meego is a research 
> project that they have allowed to continue and allowed to plan to 
> produce one phone.  Who knows if they let it get that far, and who 
> knows what happens after that.
>
> I think Meego is open source and others can continue to develop and 
> use it even if Nokia drops it.  But orphans are sometimes allowed roam 
> to streets, too.
>
> -kb
>
>
I haven't seen anyone mention that you can run Debian on an Android HTC G1:
http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/android-development/1091-install-debian-android.html

Or
https://code.google.com/p/linux-on-android/

Or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=950083