Re: getting rid of android on tablet

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Author: JD Austin
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To: Steven A. DuChene, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: getting rid of android on tablet
http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/

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
>>
>>
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