Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Post by mahrain » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:10 PM UTC

jpalomaki wrote: post #142

What I would like to do is use my phone as portable storage device and then plug it in to external processing unit and boot from my phone. The external processing unit could be desktop computer, laptop or tablet. The reason? When sitting behind my desk at home or office I don't like to be limited with the mobile CPU. I have the required kWhs to power a proper CPU, GPU and run 64GB of memory. I also don't want to run…

Post by KozmoNau7 » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

ethbro wrote: post #157

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #130

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>Windows 10 is very well polished Well, aside from Windows Defender steadfastly turning itself off because it thinks I have a different AV package installed (I don't) and "helpfully" redirecting me to uninstall the offending software first. Only there is no other AV package to uninstall. I have so far been absolutely unable to find any sort of resolution to this issue, short of a full reinstall.

The userland / GUI in Win10 still has issues. But the kernel and system side are miles above ME. We're talking about a time when you could turn a system on, sit there and watch it for a couple hours without touching anything, and it would crash itself.

Post by mavendependency » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:23 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #170

boyce wrote: post #43

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Termux is so bloody handy. That and one of the recent Blackberry phones and you've a tool rather than a toy

...or a tablet and Hacker Keyboard (which is loads better than the Google or Samsung one, especially because it has arrow keys!). That's my setup.

Post by admax88q » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #160

JorgeGT wrote: post #10

It's quite interesting that with the power of today's mobile devices (multicore 1GHz+ CPUs, GPUs, 2Gb+ RAM) we still don't have a standardized interface to plug them into desktop peripherals and launch a desktop OS/GUI. One would thing that such an universal interface would quickly become a standard offering in airports, hotels, libraries, conferences, etc.

"One would thing that such an universal interface would quickly become a standard offering in airports, hotels, libraries, conferences, etc." My favorite computing peripheral form factor has always been the PCMCIA card. It seems to me that you could fit a minimum viable phone inside a PCMCIA card and then insert that PCMCIA card into a normal sized laptop when you choose. The laptop would have no CPU/RAM - it's just…

Post by zanny » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #163

saagarjha wrote: post #55

> Linux on Galaxy allows the latest Samsung Galaxy smartphone users to run their preferred Linux distribution on their smartphones utilizing the same Linux kernel that powers the Android OS to ensure the best possible performance. (emphasis mine) I knew there was a catch somewhere. I seriously doubt there's a technical reason why older Galaxy models can't support running Linux as well. I don't understand why it's so…

"I seriously doubt there's a technical reason why older Galaxy models can't support running Linux as well. I don't understand why it's so difficult for Android manufacturers to allow users to install whatever they want" Can you do this (install arbitrary OS, etc.) on any of the google nexus devices ? I have never used one but my impression was that they had totally unlocked boot loaders, etc.