On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > # from Keith Lofstrom on Tuesday 12 March 2013: >>They look like media vending machines to me, > > The are. Out of the box, they are very geared to consuming, not > hacking. They are also very disturbingly skynet-enabled. > >>The tasks I have in mind are: typing notes for later upload to >>a server, looking at downloaded PDFs and documents. Bonus points >>if the device can run local copies of Apache and MoinMoin....CUPS, >>Securely, of course. >>...All FOSS apps, of course. > > Finding open source apps for android can be difficult, since the mass- > consumer hype around everything android treats free and open as > interchangeable, and almost every article about anything involving > android includes the words "open source" regardless of which paid app it > is advertising. > > The main thing to realize is that you don't get a standard Linux > environment with a shell (you can get a shell with connectbot to see > just how crippled it is) and you are not root until you void the > warranty. There is also not a standard bios/bootloader, so you have to > do device-specific workarounds to "root" your device. Then, all of the > apps are in java (although it's possible to compile and run binaries on > a "rooted" device.) That said, the touch interface can be pretty handy > and the CPU/ram/camera/video capabilities of a sub-$200 7" wifi tablet > are pretty impressive. >
There are a few tablets out there that are dual boot but not many. http://www.pengpod.com/products/pengpod1000 The ubuntu tablet is coming. I just did a search and found an application that is called terminal IDE. It says it has a full android sdk environment Java/c/c++/html + editor and other tools. Don't know how well it works. I just have a android phone which is too small to bother with most of these tools. Connectbot like mentioned previously is the basic ssh shell and the source is available. https://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ I haven't tried a 10" tablet but the cheap ones have the same screen resolution as the 7" tablets. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
