Re: cell phone

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 17:59 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > Rambod Kamaei wrote:
> > > > hi to list. can i install fedora packages in my cellphone?
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Rambod Kamaei (PhD) CCIE, CCNP, Linux Expert.
> > > Can we assume your cellphone is a "Google Phone" whose O/S is Android
> > > and uses linux at its base?
> > >
> > > If that is so....
> > >
> > > Head over to http://developer.android.com/index.html.
> > >
> > > I hope you are also aware that packages from any distribution are HW
> > > specific. 
> > ??? I assume you meant CPU type must match, for applications the rest of the 
> > hardware is behind system calls and libraries. And I have read in several places 
> > that Linux runs on iPhone, probably not Fedora though. ;-)
> ----
> why don't you stick to things you know. iPhone runs a version of Mac OSX
And Dell laptops run Windows... and Linux runs on all of them. I would certainly 
rather have Android than OSX (or Fedora) on a phone, but that's not what the OP 
was asking. Clearly iPhone is a WIP, but it's up and sort-of running.

You can tell who really likes their OS, no one is doing a VISTA port to iPhone. ;-)

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