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 <
plug@0x1b.com> 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 <jd@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@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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