On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:50:09AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 24/08/16 09:35, Chris Green wrote:
I'm getting totally fed up with trying to use Android tablets to do anything remotely useful, they're full of junk software you can't get rid of and you can't access the parts you want.
So, can one get a tablet (7" or maybe up to 9") that runs some vaguely normal version of Linux?
You could replace stock Android with Cyanogenmod, perhaps.
Looking at the method and software required, I would probably use a VirtualBox instance to set things up. To be fair, it's several months since I looked at this, so it may be different now.
Yes, I suspect this is probably the best route to what I want.
Or:
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/ https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch
It might be worth getting a supported Nexus device to do this.
What actual tablet is it?
Well it could be one of several phones/tablets:-
Motorola Moto E (phone) Samsung Tab 2 7" 3G (phablet) Bush Spiro 8" 3G (Argos own brand) Tatty old generic 7" tablet from China running 4.0.4 currently
I think the Moto E and Samsung are probably the best candidates for Cyanogenmod, there's a stable build for the Samsung (from 2013 though).