Android may be doing its best to
exterminate Linux on the mobile platform, but a dedicated group of fans is doing its best to keep it alive and on the move. One of those is a G1 user by the handle ghostwalker who managed to get a full X-Windows environment running on his handset. Building on the already working
Debian version for the G1, he installs LXDE (the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) on top and then connects to that using the Android VNC viewer. The process sounds straightforward (as far as these things go) and is fully detailed at the read link, but as always don't blame us if you break your poor Android's shell -- and heart.
[Via
Hack A Day, thanks Neerhaj]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ari @ Feb 24th 2009 9:52AM
That was before the PRE. Linux still rules, it just needs to applied correctly.
Pinachina @ Feb 24th 2009 11:29AM
YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE OPERATING SYSTEMS SO I PUT AN OS IN YOUR OS SO YOU CAN COMPUTE WHILE YOU COMPUTE.
Pinachina @ Feb 24th 2009 11:30AM
And then my Xzibit image failed to show up to back up my post. Lame.
squiggleslash @ Feb 24th 2009 11:33AM
So Android is a plot to kill Linux? Does this mean Windows Mobile is a plot to kill Windows CE, and S60 is a plot to kill Symbian?
Adam @ Feb 24th 2009 1:13PM
That is a thing of beauty. Now lets do Xubuntu.
pheer6224 @ Feb 24th 2009 6:18PM
It's OpenPMA ala HTC.