[gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[Silvio Siefke]

Hello,


use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a tablets,
but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a tablet with
gentoo or other Distri running?

Which tablet i can buy, advice?


Thanks & Greetings
Silvio

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on ARM Tablets

[James]

Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen <at> web.de> writes:


> use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a tablets,
> but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a tablet with
> gentoo or other Distri running?

Tablets mostly use ARM processors... You have to do some research. I've
merely collected up some links that may be of interest to you.

Look here to see what vendors are developing together for Arm-Linux.

http://www.linaro.org

http://www.archos.com/

http://www.openaos.org/~kevin/archos_angstrom_docs/index.html

http://www.samygo.tv/ 

You could had a touch screen to this system:
http://www.ti.com/tool/omap5432-evm?DCMP=omap-5432evm-130521&HQS=omap-5432evm-b-sw

Or this kit

http://www.phytec.com/products/system-on-modules/phycore/omap5430/#kits

The A15 is the smoking new Arm chip. Most cell phones and tablets use
and ARM SOC (system on a chip).

http://www.chromebook-linux.com/2011/11/gentoo-is-ready-for-chromebook.html

Post back what you do or find that is new.
Good hunting!
hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:49:44 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote:

> use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a
> tablets, but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a
> tablet with gentoo or other Distri running?

The Nexus 7 can certainly be used with other distros. I tried one that
triple-booted to Android, Bodhi (with E17) or KDE couple of weeks ago.
How it was done is documented in the current edition of Linux Format
magazine.

People have also installed Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[Jens Reinemuth]

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Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2013, 10:43:46 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:49:44 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote:
> 
> > use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a
> > tablets, but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a
> > tablet with gentoo or other Distri running?
> 
> The Nexus 7 can certainly be used with other distros. I tried one that
> triple-booted to Android, Bodhi (with E17) or KDE couple of weeks ago.
> How it was done is documented in the current edition of Linux Format
> magazine.

The last time i tried KDE (Plasma Active) on my nexus 7 ot really was pita!

Most of the controls where not really designed for touch screens... The concept of the freely placeable plasmoids and the windows also was not realy touch friendly... 

Of course you can install allmost any Linux with  a multiboot-capable kernel (which most of the custom-kernels are...) but you if you really want a gentoo, think about an usb keyboard and at least one bigger iron besides to do crosscompiling!

> 
> People have also installed Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.
> 

Ubuntu? I installed the nightlies about 3 times once a month in the past quarter year... Always: first update - wont boot again... Give them some time...

> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[christopher jones]

i use an ASUS eee EP121 tablet which has laptop hardware and is a very
pricey and hard to find tablet. However, I believe any of the ASUS eee
family laptops with touch screens and their tablets like the EB121 and
the Transformer can easily have Gentoo installed on them. Just check
out the specs of the machines first for familiar hardware like the
processor and what the person said earlier.. a USB keyboard is key.
you wont get gentoo installed on it without one since the touchscreen
wont work and if it comes with a bluetooth keyboard like mine did that
also wont work till you compile the bluetooth and touch drivers into
the kernel.

Happy hunting my friend.

On 10/25/13, Jens Reinemuth <jens@reinemuth.info> wrote:
> Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2013, 10:43:46 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:49:44 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote:
>>
>> > use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a
>> > tablets, but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a
>> > tablet with gentoo or other Distri running?
>>
>> The Nexus 7 can certainly be used with other distros. I tried one that
>> triple-booted to Android, Bodhi (with E17) or KDE couple of weeks ago.
>> How it was done is documented in the current edition of Linux Format
>> magazine.
>
> The last time i tried KDE (Plasma Active) on my nexus 7 ot really was pita!
>
> Most of the controls where not really designed for touch screens... The
> concept of the freely placeable plasmoids and the windows also was not realy
> touch friendly...
>
> Of course you can install allmost any Linux with  a multiboot-capable kernel
> (which most of the custom-kernels are...) but you if you really want a
> gentoo, think about an usb keyboard and at least one bigger iron besides to
> do crosscompiling!
>
>>
>> People have also installed Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.
>>
>
> Ubuntu? I installed the nightlies about 3 times once a month in the past
> quarter year... Always: first update - wont boot again... Give them some
> time...
>
>>
>
> --
> We wish you a Hare Krishna
> We wish you a Hare Krishna
> We wish you a Hare Krishna
> And a Sun Myung Moon!
> 		-- Maxwell Smart
>
>