Bodhi Linux has builds for ARM and is a small foot print. http://www.bodhilinux.com/ Richard On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Ed wrote: > 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 >