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@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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