Did you try alibaba.com re prices? Android does have a "Native" mode, mostly meaning not Java.
Ubuntu Touch (I think) aims at replacing Android. I have Debian Kit running on a rooted phone. Not chrooted. But I think drivers for things like the GPU, display, GPS are still lacking. I run Tight VNC server under Linux communicating with an Android VNC client. There is now an X client under Android but Real VNC's zooming and panning seems more evolved. I get really tired of band-aid approaches to security that lead to bloat, whether it's from Google or Microsoft. I've been an OpenBSD user for 15 years and there's none of that crap despite it having one of the best security records in the industry. Correct code is secure code, you don't allow things like buffer overflows to happen. It's built in at a compiler level, things like strncpy instead of strcpy. The compiler warns you when you do something that's a bad idea. On 4/7/16, Tim Small <t...@buttersideup.com> wrote: > > On 07/04/16 16:02, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> outdated >> Android is what I have to settle for unless I spring for a Google sold >> device and prices / availability in AU aren't as good as they are in the >> US. > > You have a reasonable choice of devices with Cyanogenmod and/or AOSP > etc. - updates are the usual Android style >100M download (or at least > they were last time I looked), but you usually get them next-day at > least (instead of in a few months via the vendors)... > > I've run a Debian chroot on Cyanogenmod in the past. > > You can probably find something cheap with a reasonable spec in this lot: > > http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices#cmversions="13","13.0";; > > There is also a project to build an Android phone from hardware with > open drivers too, but the name of it escapes me. > > Of course I would prefer to run straight Debian on the devices too, but > if the N900 isn't for you, and neither is the amount of hacking required > to get the upstream kernel running on your device, then perhaps these > are a reasonable compromise. > > Tim. > > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
