Suggestion for a smartphone running natively LINUX? :)

[scott]

On 03/16/2011 08:22 PM, scott wrote:
> 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
I have rooted every Droid phone I have but I haven't tried this....yet.