On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > It's perhaps too early to ask this question for Aakash in particular as > the specs may not be widely known yet. > > More general question could be: can a device that runs Android, run Linux > as well. (Or with kind of effort it can be made to run.) > > Rationale behind asking this is, if someone has made a device that runs > android, the device drivers already exist that can interact with Linux > like kernel. Only question remains whether they are open enough or not. > > > For those who consider Android as a Linux variant owing to its roots, this > is a non question. I, for one, do not consider it so. The environment is > pretty different on Android. > > Now which Linux would one expect to run on such a device: A few I know are > Maemo (little chance of it running on anything other than N900 and alikes > from Nokia), MeeGo (or whatever its new avatar), openmoko etc. (Please add > more Linux based distros that can run on PDAs/tablets to this thread.) > > Tizen - https://www.tizen.org. Its a new distro by Intel & Samsung. No devices made yet. but supports ARM as well as x86 CPU. And is set to replace MeeGo.
> (Their respective sites list the devices they support. However, what's the > difficulty level of adding new ones there given the commonality that they > all already run Android.) > > > BTW, this article says there are tablets already around that are cheaper > than Aakash > > http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Your-guide-to-the-new-35-Aakash_7700.html > I haven't checked the specs of these. > > Mayuresh. > > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List > -- Regards, Akshay Mankar The box said "Requires Windows XP, Vista, 7, or better", so I installed Linux. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
