[$] Maru: a pocket desktop
It appears to be widely accepted that the Linux desktop has achieved
limited success at best, while the Linux palmtop — in the form of
Android — has been wildly successful. The two classes of systems are
generally thought of as being quite different, but it is worth remembering
that the handsets we carry now have more computing power than the desktop
systems we were using in the recent past. Given the right peripherals, an
Android handset should be more than capable of providing a reasonable
desktop experience. The Maru
distribution is an experiment intended to prove that point by turning a
smartphone device into a portable Debian desktop.