Originally shared by Linux News Here
If you can’t wait for the launch of the official #Ubuntu smartphones (the first models are supposedly due later this year), don’t want to shell out for a new phone anyhow, or would prefer to use a different version of Linux on a portable device, there is an alternative. It’s possible to run a variety of popular #Linux distros on a standard Android smartphone or tablet – everything from a simple #BusyBox toolset right up to a full distribution with a desktop environment. You don’t even need to root your phone for some of the methods that we explore in this feature.