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Any chances to see something similar to install Linux images (native, no chroots) to old Android tablets over the original OS? Some hardware wouldn't be supported, but I wouldn't mind not having for example video acceleration, audio and/or modem, if I could use an old tablet as a IoT screen or to show graphs from sensor data, etc. Having a full OS, hence the ability to use multiple programming languages, libraries, etc would change everything.




I'm aware of PostmarketOS, but unfortunately not many tablets are supported; I'm not interested in phones also due to their too small screen.


They have a nice community, you could try to add support for your tablet!


Checkout the postmarketOS project, they do exactly that!


Some articles about that are on the Debian mobile wiki page:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile

Using a chroot will always be the easiest way to do this though.

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid


https://postmarketos.org/ might be of interest to you.




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