Hi Teemu: Thanks for the most useful information. To make the story short, could you point out - from the huge assembly you likked to - a specific device that incorporates a monitor sufficiently wide and well resolved to read papers from scientific journals? And listen to discussions. In current terms, a "tablet", however one that could successfully be adapted to Debian or Ubuntu.
In the meantime, I came across a discussion that Ubuntu is looking for a hardware company to launch a high-end Ubuntu-based tablet. It could take time, even if true. All the best, francesco On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Teemu Ikonen <tpiko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Francesco Pietra <chiendar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I was looking for some sort of i-device that could allow whifi, directed >> to reading-downloading literature and be capable of talking - via ssh/scp - >> with my workstations on a local network (not necessarily wireless). > > > You are probably looking for something which also fits the hardware > requirements of the Freedombox project. There's a wiki page of potential > hardware here: > https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware > > In addition to the list above, there's a legion of cheap Android-based > mini-pcs available now, most of which can be made to run Debian / Ubuntu at > least somehow. The up-to date specs seem to be two 1+ GHz cores, 1 GB > memory and 2-8 GBs of flash storage, plus USB, Wifi and ethernet. The SOCs > they are based are Allwinner A10/A20, Rockchip RK3066 and AML8726, and > probably others. See here for a good selection: > > http://dx.com/c/consumer-electronics-199/hd-media-players-103/android-hd-players-191 > > Best, > Teemu > >
