News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers. Parent comment

Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by chriswarbo on Sunday August 07, 2016 @06:44PM (#12244153)
> even faster is Ubuntu. it runs incredibly fast

Heh, I use Linux (NixOS) with XMonad, st and Emacs, so it's always pretty responsive. Not used Windows in over a decade, so I can't comment on its speed.

> But for more apps heavy users most apps won't work if the phone isn't on the latest OS version, and most old phones can't upgrade to the latest OS version.

My phone runs Debian, so I haven't had any problems keeping up to date :)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by kagamine on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:31AM (#12245811)
Which model phone is that? I would love to have a linux phone or cheap tablet I could lend to my children that is not Android.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by ashitlerferad on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:23AM (#12245793)
Which phone can run plain Debian??
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by chriswarbo on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:10AM (#12246379)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by ashitlerferad on Monday August 08, 2016 @12:51PM (#12249126)
Debian doesn't have a Linux kernel package for that. You can run Debian on almost any phone by using a fork of Linux for that phone.
[ Parent | on HN ]