I've been waiting for an ubuntu port to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.
I've rooted mine and am currently running the Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich release and its really a good tablet with that OS. But there is a huge interest in the Nook Color user world for an Ubuntu release that can be installed. liputing.com/2012/01/nook-tablet-hacks-flash-a-custom-rom-or-boot-ubuntu-to-restore-os-1-4-0.html Nook Color tablet is only $250, its dual core omap4, 1G memory, 16G internal storage & can add upto 32G microSSD and has the POWERVR SGX540 GPU processor and supports both Open GLES 1.1 and 2.0. https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/product/nook-tablet-specs.html I had ubuntu running on my single core nook color in chroot and it worked ok but that was 1/2 the cpu & 1/2 the ram of the new nook color tablet. There was also a great Phoronix article this past week on Ubuntu & ARM: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armhf&num=1 Brian On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Mitchell Reese < mitch...@curiouslegends.com.au> wrote: > Thanks Alan, look forward to seeing which direction things go. M > > Curious Mail - Sent via Linux > > Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: > > >Hi Mitchell, > > > >On 30/01/12 00:29, Mitchell Reese wrote: > >> Wow. So that means then, that after Mark Shuttleworth's announcement > >> that Ubuntu is coming to tablets, the 'officially' recommended way at > >> the moment to join in with development is to buy a tablet that doesn't > >> support, and quite possibly will never reliably support, hardware > >> accelerated graphics? I find that disappointing, to say the least. > >> > > > >My recommendation was based on the fact that I know it's possible to run > >Ubuntu on one of these devices. At the moment the Ubuntu Tablet is > >something Canonical are exploring, we don't have a lot of things nailed > >down, including final hardware. The Transformer is good enough right now > >to run Ubuntu, although not perfectly, it's good enough for a > >development target during our explorations. > > > >> What this means is that: > >> a. People will be unable to try anything with 12.04 until it's ported to > >> this tablet > > > >I don't understand this. People have successfully installed 11.10 on > >Transformers, and had some success with hardware acceleration. > > > > > http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer > > > >It's far from perfect but people in the community are working on the > >niggling issues by the look of it. > > > >> b. We are then 'stuck' with using the Unity 2D interface. There are > >> potentially some great things about this, but personally, I'm a fan of > >> the regular version currently shipping that requires graphics > acceleration. > > > >Unity 2D uses GL acceleration too you know :) Just less of it. I too > >like Unity, but in Ubuntu both Unity and Unity 2D are first class > citizens. > > > >> c. We will most likely be developing using the modified kernel required > >> for the transformer tablet. Admittedly I don't know much about kernel > >> development, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the future of this > >> project. Needing to have a modified kernel to get something to run > >> generally points to it not being officially supported by the main > >> project... > >> > > > >Modified kernels will almost certainly be required for _any_ ARM based > >device right now. That's a fact of life. > > > >> I would really like to see Canonical, and Ubuntu, succeed in the tablet > >> market. For this to happen though, I would expect there to be some form > >> of reasonable development device available in the near future. Alan, are > >> you able to drop us any hints as to whether this will happen or not? At > >> the very least, a roadmap from Canonical about tablet development would > >> be appreciated. Thanks. > >> > > > >We don't have a roadmap I can show you. We're just in the early stages > >of exploring the tablet market and devices and have a very small team > >looking at this. As Mark outlined in his blog post we have aspirations > >to be on tablets, but it's very early days for us. > > > >Cheers, > >Al. > > > >-- > >Alan Pope > >Engineering Manager > > > >Canonical - Product Strategy > >alan.p...@canonical.com > >http://ubuntu.com/ > > > >-- > >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > >Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net > >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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