On Tue 28 Jul 2015 08:39:31 NZST +1200, steve wrote: > TBH if all you're looking for is something with that amount of > power, I'd be looking for an Android powered pad.
Ouch. Google is not the answer. Google is the question. The answer is no thanks. I don't want the NSA or American corporates record every file I open or page I flip. It's offensive. Unfortunately android doesn't work without google, and it's not much to do with Linux any more either which in my view severely limits its use. I can't run my apps, and I can't help it but I tend to feel messed around by android apps and that play stuff. Cyanogen should be good, but so far I'm having prohibitive trouble finding a piece of hardware I want to buy that CM actually runs on. Perhaps you'd be better off to buy a doze tablet and nuke the doze? Two problems though - even the guys in Redmond decided their OS was too dozy, and you'd still have to find a Linux to put on too. (Same with any other cheap ARM systems other than the RPi - yes of course it runs "Linux", but some debianuntu adapted by an Asian guy to their hardware 3 years ago, with partially published source and not touched or maintained since, does not meet my definition of "Linux". Certainly not usable Linux.) > Of course, whether you can get all the stuff you're after is another > matter, and now Cyanogen's gone all corporate, I can't comment on > decent vanilla OS alternatives having not researched lately. But you > will get GPS, accelerometers, cameras, etc as well! I have those in my phone. Or are you going to take phone calls holding your 13" tablet to your ear? Photo please.... ;-) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
