I'm only going to comment only on the < GnuRoot > part of this message.
Actually < GnuRoot Debian >, which appears to be Debian 8 (jessie), has a
March 2017 update date, therefore, I think that is the one to use!
I just use < GnuRoot Debian > through the terminal rather than bring up X and
an xterm (I think X is via X11-server-that-speaks-VNC) since the screen is
a smartphone screen after all, and I have 1920x1080 on the screen so every
button is way too small!! I used it on these Samsung Galaxy S-series:
{S2, S5, S7}. [Recently my S5's video fried so I ebay-bought an S7.]
First off, the important thing is, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ROOT YOUR PHONE!
It seems pretty capable, although not everything will work. For one thing, I
think you have to run as user root. Your home directory (/home) is on your
VFAT internal flash drive (path is < /sdcard/ > although it is *NOT* the
external-SD-card but *IS* the internal storage). Path /, on the other hand,
is, I believe, some kind of ext#, although, annoyingly < df / > says rootfs.
At any rate, your /sdcard/ doesn't let you execute--has noexec, no doubt,
directories you create under / will let you execute stuff. Further, your
directories under / will have the nine permission bits handled correctly, etc.
I have used < gcc, make, perl, emacs, shell scripts (/bin/sh), bash,
traditional-nc (nc is netcat), ssh (client), scp (client), sftp (client).
IIRC, I had trouble trying to install < sshd (i.e., the ssh server) >.
I didn't try because I didn't care to have one: *apache* server.
In my .bashrc, I have the equivalent of:
TZ=:America/Chicago
HOME=/com
export TZ HOME
and I did < mkdir /com >. I also added < $HOME/bin (i.e., /com/bin) > to my
PATH.
So, if I want to use internal storage (VFAT), it is at < /home >, and if you
want to use < what I think is EXT# but is labelled as rootfs >, I can use ~
(which is /com).
You can use whatever name you want other than the "com" part of < /com >.
That's just what I decided to use.
[Etiology of com (what I think is a better name than "smartphone") is:
com = com com = (com)puter (com)unicator.]
Now, you can easily get to, on your Android file-management-program on the
outside of GnuRoot, you use path < /sdcard/GNURoot/home (capitalization may be
incorrect) to get to the GnuRoot-path of < /home >.
The least annoying keyboard that I've found (it is still annoying in that
sometimes arrow keys don't work in emacs) is: NextApp
So, to get < emacs > to your Android "smartphone", do this in GNURoot Debian:
apt-get install emacs
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Sorry for the sililoquoy. It's just GNURoot works so well that I am excited
about a useful Linux in my pocket.
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~ Steve ~
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 02:24:01AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> Re: GNUroot -- I think we're supposed to use this one now:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=champion.gnuroot&hl=en
>
> Mike
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried GNUroot on your Android devices? It seems like a good
> > plan for me. I was looking for a way to run GNU R on my phone or on
> > the Fire HD 8 when I found this. I guess it lets you run a lot of
> > cool stuff. Sometime soon I'll get it working and I'll let you know
> > what I think of it.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yeah, I'm the product, but I'm the product even when I'm the customer!
> >> It's inescapable in the era of big data. We have to fight
> >> exploitation legislatively. Not being the product means not
> >> participating fully in modern society and spending a lot of time
> >> checking everything. It's really not possible to avoid it.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Iznogoud wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Maybe the price is so low because "you" are the product.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It's worth noting that Amazon sells a "No Special Offers" version of all
> >>> their Kindle devices which do *not* show ads. Naturally, they cost more.
> >>> They also let you disable the ads post-purchase (though they do charge for
> >>> it, of course).
> >>>
> >>> I have heard people say the ads are not intrusive, too (they're on
> >>> screensaves/splash screens, not while you're actively using the device). I
> >>> personally still find this... less than acceptable, but if people are OK
> >>> with it on their device, I'm not going to judge. Much.
> >>>
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