Why don't we have GNU/Linux phones yet?
How hard would it be to make it possible to install whatever distribution you want to run on your phone. No, I'm not counting busybox hacks which still requires you to run Android...
I think it would be great to have your preferred distribution, with its own package manager to keep it updated, as opposed to endlessly wait for your good for nothing carrier to push an OTA update, which is likely never to be released in the first place because they suddenly decided your phone is EOL...
because RMS doesn't understand what phones are or why people would want one.
>>53698370
I know RMS hates phones, but your averge distribution doesn't.
>>53698454
You can chroot your phone and buy cyanogenmod phones which maintain support for a long long time (and it's not difficult to port and build newer versions of android)
Stop accepting those garbage carrier phones which you end up paying full price for anyways and just drop the $300-$600 and buy a decent phone outright.
What you want we have already.
>inb4 android
there is ubuntu touch
really all youd need to do is write a DE thats touch based, the software for navigating touch screen linux is there.
>>53698573
What I actually want is the freedom to choose whichever distribution out there to install on whichever phone, just like you would on a regular computer.
CyanogenMod is kind of a sub-optimal solution. Sadly it's just the best we have this point. Why, though?
>>53698672
again you can. Install a chroot.
>>53698766
chroot=/= real linux
>>53698766
>>just like you would on a regular computer.
>again you can. Install a chroot.
That's not how you would do that on a regular computer.
