>> Consumer tablets are cheap enough that we should be >> thinking in terms of devoting the machine to Tails by installing the OS >> to the internal storage rather than a USB or SD card. > > That is true. I think the hope was you could have a stock looking > device, which you could switch into this mode for specific tasks, and > then somehow switch out of it. Having a permanent TAILS device doesn't > quite match the way people think of what TAILS is/does today. However, I > agree we shouldn't get stuck on the boot device issue, and especially > since there are < $100 tablets without base bands, asking people to have > a dedicated device for something like this, is not a big deal.
And of course it’s just an option. An external boot device would still be preferred by many people. > Otherwise, as mentioned in another thread, I think there is also a great > possibility to focus on getting the actual current TAILS stack running > on a Windows 8/10 compatible tablet, as opposed to some sort of > semi-TAILS based on Android. Right. That’s what I’m advocating, especially right now while these Bay Trail tablets are being so heavily subsidized by Intel. There’s just a bit of work to be done. . png _______________________________________________ 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].
