Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphoneOS

[gene heskett]

On 10/31/24 03:58, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 31/10/24 15:49, Chris Green wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:37:07PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Yes, I run Termux too, it does an amazing job of being a proper Linux
>> system.  I even run syncthing on mine so I can synchronise files with
>> my desktop Linux system at home.  I only log into my (very rarely
>> used) Google account on my phone to use the Play Store.  It's log in,
>> update the app I need and then log out again.
>>
> 
> Part of the litigations against google, involve the monopolistic play 
> store, and, similarly, regarding the bad Apple and its equivalent.
> 
> Hence the original query, where applications developers could bypass the 
> google and the bad Apple, and develop open source applications freely 
> available without one of those surveillance companies recording and 
> selling personal information including who downloads what and when, and 
> forcing use of such sinister things as gmail (android applications 
> cannot be downloaded, or system updates performed, without using the 
> sinister gmail).
> 
I have NDI what gmail is doing today, I backed out of it when the spam I 
got was related to the last msg I sent thru them, That was about twenty 
years ago. That was the last straw. Now i'm using t-bird, which only 
soso, filters only work when they want to. T-bird misses the filter mark 
by not having a /dev/null target for hotmail and outlook.com  I've not 
got anything but spam & phishing from them in at least 3 years. 
 
 
 

> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
> 
> 

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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