On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-07-09 17:26 -0600: > > Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia > Nseries > > tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started > > looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for > > (smaller) tablets, hopefully, it will work on the larger tablets. > > I have an n810. Running Debian on it is impossible, except in a chroot. > Maemo might be Debian-based, but it is NOT Debian, and is far less useful. > Without "open" hardware/software, devices are end-of-life whenever the > manufacturer wants, and Nokia wants. Even a standard feature has stopped > working (up-to-date Maemo system on n810 requires custom /etc/hosts entry > for > agps to work: <http://talk.maemo.org/archive/index.php/t-66084.html>). > >From what I've read on-line, this is what I feared would be the case. Thank you Green for the feedback. Tablets are in their infancy compared to other computer devices like laptops so I'll remain optimistic that one day a Debian tablet installation will be as smooth as it is on a PC these days. >On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Csanyi Pal <csanyi...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >there is another tablet, called XO-3: >http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3 <http://one.laptop.org/about/xo-3> > >Again, is it possible to install on it a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system? > >Though, one can't to buy this tablet individually. :( Very interesting, although the inability for individual purchase is a buzzkill, thank you for the info anyways. Mark
