Part of me says you might be better off starting with a Raspberry Pi if you want a more vanilla Linux/GNU experience on a pocket-sized computer than what Android offers... unless there's some smartphones out there that support replacing their stock Android with the ARM version of more traditional distros. The Raspberry Pi 3 makes a great command line-only with speech Linux box, and there are reports of the 4GB ram version of the Pi 4 running LXDE or Mate with Orca and still having resources to spare on graphical applications. Admittedly, I'm not aware of any good way of giving the Pi an internal battery(I'm sure there's a hat for that, I just haven't found one), and it might mean handling microSD cards more than one is comfortable with(I wish the Raspberry Pi Foundation had stuck with full-sized SD cards for their system drives or that there was a way to flash an SD card while it's loaded in a Pi), but you also get 4 full-sized USB ports for hooking up peripherals and the option ofconnecting to wired networks via Ethernet. If you do decide to go this route, I'd recommend http://www.raspberryvi.org/stories/index.html And the associated mailing list. That said, the ability to tell Android's Java-based, touchscreen-optimized GUI to take a hike and drop down to a Linux console would be nice, almost as nice as full built-in physical keyboards being a common option or having dual full-sized SD card slots for expanded storage or devices being equipped with batteries that actually have decent capacity and can be swapped out for a charged spare when they do run low at an inconvenient time. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list