Linux On Phones and Tablets With postmarketOS

The power of open source and Linux means incredible projects like PostmarketOS exist. They aim to give up to 10 years support on supported devices.
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[@Bob-of-Zoid]

I love Linux, and I have an old 2012 Sony VAIO but cheep it was not when new. It has an Intel Core i7-3632QM quad core CPU, an AMD Radeon HD 7670M, a 14" LED touch screen at 1600X900, Backlit Keyboard, CD/DVD Burner, Camera , and came with a 1TB SATA HDD very rare for a laptop back then, but I replaced it with a 1TB SSD, and 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ I upgraded to 16GB, and a pretty darned good Audio system and sound for a laptop, as well as battery life of~5 1/2h, and all the ports, even a USB3 and HDMI, so cutting edge back then.😮 It runs great and pretty snappy with Arch Endeavour and KDE Plasma!🥳 I got it used for next to nothing, booted it up to see if everything worked, didn't even bother to see it run but for a few seconds, and nuked Windows, formatted the drive, and installed Linux on it.😁 I have the same combo Linux Distro and DE, on my other 3 desktop computers too, but sadly my phone is a Samsung J7 with Android Oreo, and for being kind of an odd ball I cannot find a Linux OS that will run on it yet, at least not without much hackery, and drawbacks😥 For years Samsung has claimed to want to support Linux with drivers, but haven't in the slightest! I think it's just to play games with Linux users and get us off their backs; A-holes!🤬

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Great story about your Sony VAIO laptop. I have a backup phone to my GrapheneOS phone. It's got Android 11, I think, on it, but I've used android bridge service to remove or disable as much as possible. Also, using NetGuard through F-Droid I am able to firewall all data and get fine grain control, and it makes any stock android device snappier.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@JamesChampionLinux I did de-google it quite a bit, and use only F-Droid for apps, and for the most part only the phone to make calls and the rare text, a very good security and privacy practice, but haven't heard of android Bridge yet. Going by the name, KDE connect Popped to mind, which I use to have great control of it with my PC. I have been using computers for so long (1979) I never saw much value in using a squint-box like so many do, and love a big screen, big and comfy keyboard... and compute power. It's rare that something cannot wait til I'm home, and the laptop can travel with me, and I have a 110V outlet in the car if I need to use it (pulled into a parking lot). I never drive distracted for that matter either, which has became the leading cause of accidents now, and 98% for phone use, and why I want to have weapons like guided missiles attached to my car everywhere, and maybe a gunner in a bubble on the roof, because where I live it's so freaking bad, and the best driver cannot always evade bad ones, especially when they are the vast majority! One view and your channel is already showing up in my feed in multiple suggestions (Maybe I'm running out of youtube! It has resorted to grabbing at straws because it still hasn't a clue what I like, nor why, and makes way too many false guesses, so if I see a title of interest by your channel, and I like what I see more frequently I may just subscribe.

[@gilangwahyu4450]

I remember when this kind of specs is VERY good 😭

[@pantherasad2114]

Thx for sharing, great video. What an incredible project!

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KirsiVackelin]

GPS itself does not track anyone, it is one-way. Today, applications that have access to your smartphone's location may be used to track your phone's movements. Using GPS with outdated hardware could actually be secure.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Well, GPS isn't working on this ASUS MemoPad 7 if you replace it with Linux, so I guess that's another way to do it.

[@mskiptr]

Which model do _you_ have? Because the Wikipedia article talks about a single-core ARM Cortex-A9 device with a Mali-400 (the SoC being VIA WM8950) while the Arch and pmOS wikis talk about an x86 device (a quad core Intel Atom Z3745 probably). Wikipedia also has an article about Asus Memo Pad HD 7, which supposedly uses a Mediatek MT8125. And on top of all that the pmOS wiki also has a second article about a different x86 model of the ASUS MeMO Pad 7.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I did wonder if there were multiple versions when I saw an x86 and ARM device. The version I have is the x86 device that was released in 2014. Thanks for getting me to check.

[@shawn284]

A Livestream would be most entertaining James!

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I'm hoping to do a livestream in the near future. I will probably do a shorter test stream first to make sure everything works.

[@memevengers251]

Very informative. Thank you

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AbelTajima-mj5yx]

If your tablet is still on the kitkat frimeware your kind of screw well not really but it's a pain in the arse the update to lollipop wich you need (because it as the uefi frimeware) to install PostmarketOS. For the aged hardware it runs pretty well (I bet it because it's not an ARM but x86 device), Xfce runs fine, (but forget about firefox on this) Midory for browsing is kinda ok, you can't really play videos online, but if it's just texte it's fine, you can play videos with VLC (but the cpu gets hot), Play games with RetroArch 😉, I use mine manly as a pdf reader for books. Enjoy it's a good pick for pmOS.

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's currently on lollipop.

[@Nicholasorsomething.]

I would love to hear you talk about plan9/ front9

[@JamesChampionLinux]

I will probably take a look at it in the future for a video. :)

[@vivekanand9843]

17:00

[@jargolauda2584]

You did not install the os onto that tablet. so..?

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Even though I haven't installed it on my device yet, I wanted to highlight the project.

[@TrustJesusToday]

I thought Android is a sort of Linux...

[@JamesChampionLinux]

You're right, it sort of is, but it sort of isn't.

[@adamturtle69]

Das schlechteste Video was ich mal wieder seit langem gesehen habe was für eine zeitverschwendung.....

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Oh nein! Na ja... :)

[@nl33izzettin26]

talking too much telling too little

[@JamesChampionLinux]

Story of my channel. :)