Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphone OS

[Peter Flynn]

On 30 October 2024 09:11:04 Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> On 30/10/24 07:15, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 04:53:27AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> […] I am wondering as to what degree, Linux, as Ubuntu or otherwise, is 
>>> available as an OS for cellphones […]
>>
>> Canonical tried this with Ubuntu Phone for several years up to 2017 or
>> so, and then it wasn't working commercially […]

Quite apart from the very genuine small-p-political reasons for having an 
Ubuntu phone, there used to be an old argument that you'd be able to run 
desktop (X Window) applications on your phone.

However, right now I have a Google Pixel 8a running Termux, inside which I 
just installed both Emacs and TeX Live, which with Java and Saxon provide a 
complete XML—XSLT—LaTeX—PDF workflow identical to my desktop and laptop.

Peter
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