Full Linux distro on a Nook color

April 17, 2012 By 20 Comments
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We should have included a footnote in the title. You can say that [Thomas Polasek] installed a full version of Arch Linux on his Nook Color, but there's one caveat. It's running on top of the Android kernel and his proof-of-concept uses a second computer to get it up and running. But there's potential for that to change moving forward. Unlike previous attempts to run a Linux distro on Android, … [Read more...]

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Running Debian and Android on the G1

November 11, 2008 By 6 Comments
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[Jay Freeman] has a rather exhaustive tutorial on how to set up a Debian environment on your T-Mobile G1. The first major issue with this is that getting root level access through telnetd is being patched. It certainly is a security issue that needs to be fixed, but a user shouldn't have to root their own phone to begin with. While the G1 comes with some Linux tools, they're limited. [Jay]'s goal … [Read more...]

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