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 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 > 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss