Warning, emotional content ahead:

So, my best friend, GF, off and on fiancé, Julie, had a heart attack Aug 8 and is gone. The months since then have been... hard.
She got me to install SETI@Home May 1999 while we shared our 1st apartment and bought the T-Shirts (in my closet).
I burned up one of our early Cyrix 686 CPU's while experimenting with OCing and Peltier heatsinking for SETI.
She was always so patient as I installed VM's and various BOINC projects on her personal laptops and they ran too hot for her lap.
She'd roll her eyes and say; "I can't sit this on my lap... " or "Can you get more speed back for 2nd Life?"

Inherited 6 of her 10 Amazon Fire tablets, 3 Fire TV's and an LG Phone.
They sit here mostly doing nothing ATM. (The phone is still logged into her FB and the last tablet still has her Amazon account with video faves and such. Preserving someone's thought patterns and memories in the digital age is odd, but way more achievable, compared to the past if a person didn't journal or write a memoir)

I hope she'd grudgingly approve, if not enthusiastically cheer, as I try to get Linux on her idle tablets.

End of emotional content.


The admin at SiDock said CurieMarieDock 0.2.0 short tasks were only for PIE and I was too busy to be skeptical 2 months back. Got some free time last week and found this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/

postmarketOS appears to be the most heavily tested and developed Linux OS replacement for tablets and phones. Most of you probably already know about it, but here is the current list of success and models that have installed and booted:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

You'll find the list of non-booters at the bottom.
Looks like all of Julie's Fire TV's are in that list. :(

As the weather warms, and I desire to keep BOINCing, getting many of these on Linux is upcoming project.
Also, LineageOS to replace 1 or more Android tablets OSes (maybe the 2 Vankyo 3GB 8 cores that bench as fast as an Amazon Fire 8 10th gen because Amazon cheeped out and didn't install lvl 2 cache).

Anyone else have experiences with postmarketOS?