sajolida wrote (02 Feb 2015 20:51:02 GMT) : > Peter N. Glaskowsky: >> I bought one of these WinBook TW700 x86 Windows tablets: >> http://www.microcenter.com/product/439773/TW70CA17_Tablet_-_Black >> <http://www.microcenter.com/product/439773/TW70CA17_Tablet_-_Black> .
>> It's super cheap-- $65.98 delivered (or if you can get to a store, >> open-box units are reportedly sold for $48 plus tax)-- and looks like >> a decent potential platform for Tails. Among the usual features for >> this class of device, it has a 7" 1280x800 LCD, an Intel BayTrail-T >> Z3735G 1.33GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 16GB of flash, and a microSD >> card slot that reportedly takes up to 64GB cards. > 1GB won't be a lot of RAM for running Tails Jessie... But it should be > enough for the basics. >> I would be happy to buy one of these WinBook tablets for a Tails >> developer who will commit to working out a way to boot Tails, even if >> it still requires a keyboard or pointing device to get the OS >> running. It shouldn't be too difficult, and of course they'd get to >> keep the device after they publish the necessary instructions and >> code. Booting from a USB stick would be fine; I suspect it would be >> very difficult, maybe impossible, to boot from an SD card. I think if >> people try out such a proof of concept, they'll recognize the value >> of a supplementary computing device with intrinsically strong >> security. > I'm forwarding this to tails-dev, then :) Thanks for the offer. Just to be clear, according to #6064#note-16, what seems to be blocking is 32-bit UEFI support (#8471). I could be interested in working on this, but no promise regarding a timeline. If anyone wants to do it, I can give pointers about what I've thought of already. And the syslinux community will surely help. Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
