Dear people, Some years ago I bought a Zealz GK802 dongle (which, if I understand correctly from what I read on the web [0], is an imx6-based system---but I am not sure) which came with an 8GB microsd card running Android 4.0.
My primary intention with it would be to serve me as a device to run Kodi, but, as soon as it was doing *anything*, it overheated and locked hard. I left it there gathering dust, despite it being potentially able to, while not serving as my primary intention, act as something else, like downloading some torrents or building some packages, given that it is much more powerful than my KuroBox Pro with (which is an armel device with only 128MB of RAM---of course, the IO abilities of the two devices are mightly different). Anyway, revisiting this device, I am interested in getting any more modern operating system on it and, of course, Debian is my first choice. Does anybody here have any experience with this kind of system or something similar? If yes, how have things evolved in the last 4 years? Is it too painful to install Debian on it? If nobody has any experience with it, I am interested in investing some effort into getting it working, so that I can make some use of this piece of hardware that I have here. I can provide some details with respect to the hardware and document my experiences and the installation process somewhere for reference of others (kind of what Martin did with some systems on his personal page) with the ultimate goal of getting it working well with Linux. Thanks for any help, Rogério. [0]: http://projectgus.com/2013/05/debian-installer-for-zealz-gk802-android-tv-quad-core-arm-minipc/ -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
