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Well, I should have known. Once people start putting Ubuntu and whatever on their Android phones, there's no turning back. A guy called Zachary Powell started making Android apps that help you install Ubuntu, Debian or BackTrack on your phone. I think the latter needs not too much of an introduction ... it's got pretty much most of the "security" tools that you might need to do a vulnerability scan of a LAN. Running BackTrack on your phone you can become a "secret agent", walking into a place and just "hack" (as in "run apps that do it for you") through your way to the target by pressing a button titled "upload virus" (note the movie reference ). Of course as a possible side-effect you might find yourself pretty soon in jail. So treat this idea as seriously as it was meant.

Nevertheless, running your own linux distro on your phone has a bunch of advantages. Eg. the lately announced Ubuntu for Android project seems quite interesting. With this level of integration (shared apps, documents/files, contacts, etc.) you can soon drop your notebooks/netbooks/etc. and have just a single gadget, a smartphone. The high-end phones announced this year will all have 4 or more CPU cores, one or more GB RAM, plenty of storage (64 GB or more via SD card) and HDMI connectivity. So what's to stop you from using the phone as a full blown PC?

P.S.: there's this other BackTrack installer too, but it's payware.