Fedora on Android

[Les Howell]

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