Fedora on Android

[Jon]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Les Howell <hlhowell at pacbell.net> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
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You can extract the Fedora armhfp bits onto Android, and then chroot.
Similar setup to how Busybox works on Android, but much more heavy weight.




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-Jon Disnard
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