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To: ProgressingAmerica

Linux on my portable.
What shall we do for our tablets and phones?


4 posted on 01/11/2021 6:35:34 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico. )
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To: Mad Dawg

I have Linux running just fine on a Surface 2 Pro, and have seen it on Surface 3s as well. It’s ironic, but everything works out of the box just fine.(Must be x86)

For your phone, hopefully you have one that would accept a LineageOS ROM file.


7 posted on 01/11/2021 6:39:23 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: Mad Dawg
What shall we do for our tablets and phones?

Linux Smartphones

Pine Phone

This Gorgeous New Linux Phone Ships With Ubuntu Touch And LineageOS

15 posted on 01/11/2021 6:51:52 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Mad Dawg
GrapheneOS works on only a handful of phones, ironically, the Pixel line of phones sold by google. GrapheneOS is Linux but compatible with Android apps. Little tricky to install but there's a few people on ebay selling Pixel phones with GrapheneOS pre-installed.

There's a way to put Linux on a Chromebook but that's even trickier.

Tablets, depends on the model I suppose. I have a rugged Panasonic tablet that I run Ubuntu on. It's a touch screen but the kind where you have to use a stylus. Works fine on Ubuntu though.

Here's what my Panasonic CF-H2 rugged tablet looks like

Mine's silver but they made them in white too for the medical field. Kind of an oddball but it's an Intel machine made for Win 7 and Ubuntu works just fine. Linux/Ubuntu works fine on most anything that ran windows. I use Thinkpad laptops for daily use and have for close to two decades running various flavors of Ubuntu. They sold a lot of Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed.

25 posted on 01/11/2021 7:12:08 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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