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Ubuntu On A Phone
In the Q&A column of September 2019 (FCM#150), a reader asked how he could put Ubuntu on his phone. Erik replied with the suggestion of an app called Drivedroid, available on the Google Play Store. It, however, requires rooting your phone.
In a tutorial published in January 2019 (FCM#141), I explained how, through trial and error, I succeeded in putting Ubuntu with XFCE4 on my Honor 5C, which is now over 4 years old. It can go no higher than Android 7 and has a total of 2GB of RAM, with an average of between 600 and 900 MB available at any one time. Today, as we all know, Linux needs at least 1GB to perform well.
The apps I used were UserLAnd and bVNC. It was NOT necessary to root my phone. The people, especially Corbin, on UserLAnd at Github were most helpful, so here is the address again : https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd/issues/ Emails may be sent to support@userland.tech
On Huawei or Honor phones, with at least Android 9, their team has had no reports of any problems at all. Today, the distributions available are Alpine, Arch, Debian, Kali and Ubuntu. Plus various desktops and software. Might I suggest that before your readers go through the hassle of rooting (that will destroy the guarantee of their phone), they try UserLAnd and bVNC?
When my faithful Honor 5C finally gives out, and I get a new phone, one of the first things I will do is to put UserLAnd and bVNC (perhaps with LXDE rather than XFCE4) on it. And, of course, I’ll report back to the FCM.
With very best wishes,
AuntieE (of the French Translation Team)