Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brad Alexander: Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for (smaller) tablets, hopefully, it will work on the larger

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-13 Thread Csanyi Pal
Mark mamar...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, there is another tablet, called XO-3: http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3 Again, is it possible to install on it a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system? Though, one can't to buy this tablet

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-12 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-07-09 17:26 -0600: Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started looking at whether

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-11 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, Have one tried the iFree Tablet? http://www.ifreetablet.es/ Is it possible to install on it a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system? -- Regards, Paul http://csanyi-pal.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-11 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, there is another tablet, called XO-3: http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3 Again, is it possible to install on it a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system? Though, one can't to buy this tablet individually. :( -- Regards, Paul http://csanyi-pal.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-10 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Jens Van Broeckhoven jens.van.broeckho...@telenet.be wrote: I'm running Debian stable on an Archos tablet (you should be able to find many howtos). Installation wasn't that hard but not without any extra configurations. Getting android 3.x on this thing seems

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-10 Thread green
Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-07-09 17:26 -0600: Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for (smaller) tablets,

What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Mark
A friend is looking into tablets, and one of the main drawbacks we've found for Android based tables is that there is no scheduled support timeline - i.e. an Android 2.1 tablet isn't necessarily upgradeable to 3.0 if Google or the manufacturer (not sure of logistics here but assuming it's one or

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:25:42 -0700 Mark mamar...@gmail.com schreef: A friend is looking into tablets, and one of the main drawbacks we've found for Android based tables is that there is no scheduled support timeline - i.e. an Android 2.1 tablet isn't necessarily upgradeable to 3.0 if Google or

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for (smaller) tablets, hopefully, it will work on the larger tablets. My problem

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 07:26:44PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: My problem with tablets (aside from the android dillution), is the cost. For the cost of a tablet, you could get a pretty nice laptop, which seems more cost effective. False comparison. A tablet isn't used for the same things or