I also have a Gen 1 Nexus 7 and would like to try this if it can be done from Mac or Win OS. I'd be particularly interested in the usability of of the basic features of Etoys 5 and Scratch 1.4. I would imagine TurtleBlocks works well.
With the procedure characterized as tricky, I may fast follow George on this. Mike On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:43 AM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a nexus, and I'm anxious to learn how to swap out OS, reload stuff, > etc. > > Does Ubuntu talk directly to the hardware? If so, how much variation is > there in the hardware? If most tablets are based on arm SOC's, this might > work across many hardware platforms. > > George > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Ruben Rodríguez <qui...@sugarlabs.org>wrote: > >> 2013/9/7 George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com>: >> > There's a complex "Sugar on Android" solution. At this point, it's only >> for >> > hackers. But it just might help us achieve the $100 Sugar machine. >> > >> > Refer to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151092. >> >> This sounds like fun, but maybe not that useful for real deployments >> as it probably works quite slowly. >> >> > I'm inclined to play with the nexus, because there's so much information >> > available on how to add software. Then later I can try it with a $100 >> > machine. >> >> Good news is that I already have Sugar 0.98 running natively (no >> android underneath) on my Nexus 7 on top of Ubuntu. >> >> http://imgur.com/WMgm3oB >> >> As a byproduct of packaging 0.98 in deb form -which is something I'm >> working on this days-, and since I have a Nexus, I compiled the debs >> for armhf to play a little bit with them. There are some bugs but it >> worked overall in a very promising way: most things work, including >> frame gestures, maliit, journal, activities and collaboration. It is >> also quite fast. >> >> If somebody has a nexus and wants to give it a try I can publish the >> debs and a brief howto during the weekend. It is a bit tricky, though. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Rubén Rodríguez - SugarLabs.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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