Linux on the Windows 7 Phone
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- My attempts to run Linux on the Fujitsu F-07C Windows 7 phone. I found this to be more challenging than I expected. My primarily goal was to see if I could backup the internal eMMC SSD. Including the Windows 7 recovery partition.
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Android-x86 would be really interesting to see working!
Agreed
Linux distros such as Elive and Bodhi have given me the best experience on low powered computers. The window manager called Enlightenment is super lightweight but has a ton of special effects and any creature comforts that can come to mind.
4:09 OMG It's ReactOS! I didn't expect that.
Great video. You could have chosen Debian, it is stable and is compatible with most of architectures. It should work if it is ARM or x86_64.
I would like to revisit this phone again one day. And I have had success recently with Debian on a 2004 Sony VAIO.
I think you should try some display drivers on that live ubuntu mate OS, just to iron out which one to use and how to configure it before nuking the emmc. Another choice would be Windows XP or Vista
isnt that xorg mouse emulation thats the problem?
status=progress can be placed before the | gzip part, since its part of the dd command
8:00 and Symbian part of phone crashes as well. I had sometimes same glitch on Nokia 5228, followed by phone restart.
Great video as always! You could give MX Linux a shot, it's based on Debian, really lightweight, and they have a 32 bit version.
Thank you, I do like the idea of light Debian based versions for trying out.
I would have recommended something Arch based due to the advancement in graphics drivers lately, but sadly they no longer offer 32 bit. MX is very well polished and maintained, I'd be excited if it actually worked.
Touch screen doesnt work proper because its set to xorg instead of wayland also xorg doesnt support auto rotation and proper touchscreen in tablets
Wayland looks way better :) Thank you for helping me learn something new. I want to do more Linux installs.
@@JanusCycle no problem :) also xorg mouse emulation sucks on tablets but runs good in monitors
Afaik there's some kernel parameter that overrides the screen orientation. You can temporarily set it in GRUB
As for the distro to install, I would definitely try some phone-related distribution. Maybe postmarketos? You will definitely find helpful people there!
Btw, did you check your backup is full and correct? Don't forget to copy it off of the SD card, as they like to be fiddly
I have checked the backup and I can see at least the recovery partition looks good.
Thanks for the tips! I'm trying out some OS installs at the moment. But I'm currently stuck on the wireless network adaptor.
@@JanusCycle Oh nice!
What vendor is it from?
(I mean the Wi-Fi card)
@@mskiptr It's an Atheros, but the issue is with the interface. I hope to have an update video soon.
As a (almost) pro in Linux, I can tell you this:
good job choosing the distro, tho I would recommend Mint Mate instead
it probably doesn't use acceleration at all coz you didn't install drivers yet (obviously), but if the phone uses Intel integrated graphics, then the open source Mesa drivers are pre-installed
it is possible to rotate the multitouch input in the xorg.d config
your CLI skills are absolutely terrible, but that's fine since you are a first time Linux user
I thought that if you are a phone enthusiast that knows how to use UART you would already be familiar with Linux. Imagine still using Win98 to flash Nokias 💀
debian with i3wm/i3. Its about as light as you can get.
if you can check that cpu virt extensions are enabled, i could set up an image that autoboots dos under kvm that starts in landscape mode.
debian with i3 uses 200mb idles and around 800 with say a web browser open.
Great video mate
Thanks!
I boot MATE and windows 11. This is a cool thing to see on a little phone.
Maybe booting off a USB CD drive will solve some of the boot issues? Also this Atom chip probably uses PowerVR graphics which is famously terrible in Linux, you may be SOL. I don't think Imagination Technologies (creator of PowerVR) are interested. I'd probably roll with a basic debian install and a super basic desktop like i3wm on hardware like this. Even "lightweight" desktops of yesteryear like xfce and gnome2 (MATE now) kinda chug on stuff like this these days in my experience. Hopefully you can get the graphics working right and we can find out.
CD booting does seem more reliable and a good technique to use.
Thanks for these details on the graphics hardware. There is lots for me to learn in this area. i3wm looks intriguing.
Have you tried Android x86 on this? I'm curious how it would run on the latest version of Android you can get it to boot!
The challenge is finding a 32 bit version of Android x86, and that will work with the GPU in this phone. I would like to try this but it might only work with an older version of Android.
mình thích máy như này nè, vừa làm việc được, lại nhỏ gọn, có cổng usb để cắm vào máy in thì tốt
Dock này cắm máy in được nhé, nhưng con này mở được Word chắc cháy mất
Wow, I don't even turn on compression when dd on i5-1035G1 computer because of slowness, and you turn on compression on an Atom with even lower frequencies.
After you showed a slow responsiveness of the Ubuntu MATE I realized this thing has a GMA600, aka *fuck you, no drivers for you in linux*.
Which is probably why you couldn't run some distros (except those times when your phone ran out of memory leaving you in an initramfs shell)
(2:46) It failed to mount the Linux root filesystem image stored on the memory card
Thank you. I'm learning lots of new things.
You should share the image somewhere, im sure there aren't many backups of working system available
Yes Yes Yes Nice. gotta love it
What about an older version of Ghost to copy the drive?
Being an eMMC SSD means there are no drivers for older OS's to even see it.
Good one
Raspberry pi OS would be nice, its been opened up to where it can run on x86
мсье знает толк в извращениях! давно хотел себе этот телефон, теперь хочу еще больше. продолжайте в том же духе. вот ради такого и подписался на канал
Thank you
something like kollibri os could work just saying
Can you upload the emmc backup on somewhere? I wanna take a look at it
It's 32Gb, if you have an easy suggestion for doing this then email me.
I'd try a ubuntu 16 based LXDE linux
7:56 im really intrested into this. what happend there?
I'm not really sure unfortunately
Why not try Android x86 as well just for the fun of it?
If I can find a version that works I will.
PLAY HALF LIFE ON ITTTTT
TempleOS when?
Ahh, TempleOS. One of the Good ones.
Hannan Montana Linux?
Is there an alternative with amd64 architecture ?
But can it run Crysis?
ReactOS \o/
i386 non PAE CPU! This is your problem. Get older kernel.
I thought Intel Atom Z600 did have PAE? I've been exploring PAE on early Pentium M recently. It's in the CPU but not identified, video soon.
Don't worry, it's not the device's fault, everything seems to unexpectedly quit in Linux regardless of what hardware it's on. 😂
This was more challenging than I expected. I have also been getting some great suggestions on Reddit for other distros to try out. I will be testing out Linux further on this phone/PC and other devices in the future. www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/s3fbne/best_distros_for_unusual_portable_hardware/