Fedora on Android

[Les Howell]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 09:25 -0700, Les Howell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 05:42 -0400, Corey Sheldon wrote:
> > Look at androidx86 project they may be able to give you some pointers
> > for native co-habitating   ---http://www.android-x86.org
> > 
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Les Howell <hlhowell at pacbell.net>
> > wrote:
> >         On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:29 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> >         > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Adam Williamson
> >         > <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >         > > On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 17:03 -0700, Les Howell wrote:
> >         > >> Hi, guys,
> >         > >>       I created a new UI for GRBL using Python with
> >         tkinter.  Not
> >         > >> bad, but it
> >         > >> won't work on an Android Notepad (GX10 from a company
> >         called EKEN),
> >         > >> which was my target.  Quit laughing, I know every one of
> >         you has had
> >         > >> some similar experience where a language wouldn't port
> >         someplace...
> >         > >>
> >         > >>       Anyway, I had seen some reports of Fedora on
> >         Android.  I
> >         > >> have been
> >         > >> searching for over an hour and cannot for the life of me
> >         find Fedora
> >         > >> for
> >         > >> Android.  I have seen links to various apps that will
> >         sort of be
> >         > >> linux,
> >         > >> and some that have some functionality, but reading the
> >         reviews has
> >         > >> left
> >         > >> me wondering if my favorite group of developers has given
> >         up on these
> >         > >> little useful devices?  Looking at the new Fedora
> >         offerings, I get
> >         > >> Workstation, Server, and Cloud.  But I could not for the
> >         life of me
> >         > >> figure out which would work on Android A20 processors??
> >         > >>
> >         > >>       Please Help.  This little pad has but one
> >         destination,
> >         > >> driving my own
> >         > >> milling machine, so rooting it is definitely an option,
> >         but I would
> >         > >> prefer if there were some way to boot from the SD card
> >         with linux to
> >         > >> verify that it works first.  Just to keep it simple...
> >         > >>
> >         > >>       Can someone please point me in a good direction to
> >         start.
> >         > >
> >         > > "Fedora on Android" is not really a thing, because Android
> >         is an OS
> >         > > and Fedora is an OS.
> >         >
> >         > Unless you write a VM for Android and run Fedora as a guest
> >         in it ;)
> >         
> >         
> >         I did something like that a very long time ago to get a form
> >         of lisp
> >         running on a Z80 one board computer.  I suspect it is a lot
> >         harder today
> >         and for the tablet would probably mean hacking the drivers in
> >         some way.
> >         Maybe I'll take a look at this idea...
> >         Regards,
> >         Les H
> 
> Thanks.  I'll check that out.
> 
Ok, Jon,
	Checked that out.  It appears to be going the wrong way, from android
on the pad to the desktop.  
	Looks like it is back to the ADS solution.  I'll probably license the
Python code with GPL and put it out there on the GRBL website.

Regards,
Les H