Fedora on Android

[Les Howell]

On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 22:45 -0500, Jon wrote:
> 
> 
> 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



> -Jon Disnard

Thanks, Jon,
I'll check that out, too.