getting rid of android on tablet

[Ed]

Give Linaro a look :
http://www.linaro.org/

There is an OpenBSD ARM distribution that looks uptodate, although
more for storage devices than tablets:
http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu is getting close to having a linux that will run on some android
> devices.. but until then I'd recommend you load Cyanogenmod on them.
>
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Steven A. DuChene
> <linux-clusters at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a few 7" android tablets made by either pandigital or panimage.
>> They have some older version of android on them. I am not really all that
>> wild about the restrictive and weird nature of android.
>>
>> Is there anyway to put a more normal version of some light weight Linux on
>> them? These tablets only have 256MB of real memory although recently I have
>> seen other cheap 7" tablets with 512MB of memory.
>> I want to be able to run a single graphical app on them with no fancy
>> desktop environment.
>> I have a graphical app that displays real time data from a automotive ECU
>> and I would like to be able to have the tablet boot up and just run this
>> single app.
>>
>> Initially if I could just get some sort of text console prompt so I could
>> start to figure stuff out that would be good but I really want to get rid of
>> android and go to some other more normal lightweight linux distro.
>>
>> Is any of this possible at all?
>> --
>> Steven DuChene
>>
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