getting rid of android on tablet

[Steven A. DuChene]

This runs Ubuntu on top of android. This will not work on a device that only has 256MB of RAM and a fairly slow processor.
These are light weight tablets as far as system hardware resources. As I said I am looking to replace the android OS (as in it is not there any more at all) on them now with some sort of light weight linux distro. 

There have been a LOT of unusual ports of Linux to strange hardware (the Linux for a Nintendo DSLite handheld comes to mind) so I would not think it should be that much of a stretch to get a semi-functional Linux kernel and busybox system onto one of these android devices.
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Steven DuChene

-----Original Message-----

From: JD Austin 

Sent: Aug 11, 2012 11:37 AM

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 <jd at 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 at 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?

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Steven DuChene





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