Jay Freeman successfully ports Debian for Android

[CJ Chitwood]

And seriously, why would you WANT to run GIMP on this tiny-a**ed screen? With this screen, I have to be real careful where I place my finger on the tiny links in browser to be sure I get the right one... GIMP would be completely useless... I'd spend 3/4 of my time hitting "undo" from the edit menu (since there's no CTRL key for the Z).

After reading the source article, it appears that Debian and Android would be running side-by-side.... I'm not sure I understand what they're doing there.... is it merely chrooted?

I agree, there's more likelihood (and benefit) of porting Android to desktop than Linux to handheld, but that's not the point. We learn by doing. We may not get anything useful out of *this* but who knows what we might learn by doing this that we may use elsewhere?

I applaud the effort, myself, but I don't plan on trying it until I see that Debian has apps to turn my newly rewritten cellphone BACK INTO a cellphone so I can continue using the PHONE in it.




However...


What would be FAR more useful to me is (1) root access, even if I DON'T ever use it, and (2) the ability to edit my screen to do different icons, different text fonts, etc.



Now, I guess I'm gonna hafta go google Amarok and Compiz to see what these are... I keep reading posts about them like they're some kind of Cocaine for nerds but I've never really paid them any attention...