Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:27:02 -0600
Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
> <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On March 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
> > <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Alan, the "vast majority" of Linux users right now are phone users.
> >
> >> At least, that's how I see it.
> >
> >> Again, think about phones. And tablets. And TVs. And
> >> [insert-here-cool-gadgets-from-the-future].
> >
> >> Right now Linux runs in my phone, my TV's, my routers and every
> >> computer I own. I have a couple of Windows installations, which I
> >> use once or twice every three months (I ported a PyGTK program to
> >> Windows last week, so I had to boot into Windows for the first
> >> time this year). I want Linux running on *everything*, and what is
> >> more: I don't want android in my handhelds, I want the full GNOME
> >> experience.
> >
> >> Regards.
> >> --
> >
> > What phone do you have running which "Linux"?
> >
> > I'm curious because a couple months ago we got new Samsung Galaxy S
> > phones.
> >
> > I'd previously used an iPhone 3GS for a bit over a year. Since I
> > can't stand Apple, as a company, it was with great joy that we
> > could get 2 of these Galaxy S phones for free (with the 2-year
> > contract, of course).
>
> Sony XPeria Play, with Android 2.3.3, I believe.


Android != Linux (in context of userspace)

To get a phone shipped with a running Linux (in the usual definition of
Linux, not Richard Stallman's) you need that Nokia one that will never
again see the light of day.

Or root your Sony and stick Debian on it. Being a Sony device, that
might be hard.


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com