Greetings, On 07/14/2016 07:55 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Are there any tablets in the Apple iPad price range that run SL 7? > If not SL 7, other distros (say, Ubuntu "enterprise")?
I can say from personal experience that the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 runs Ubuntu 16.04 really well. The Surface Pro 3 also works but is a bit rougher (had some issues with the keyboard that took a while to fix; wasn't working out of box. Also, the screen resolution is so high that it made touching difficult to be precise). It wasn't a hard install at all. Just disable UEFI and select traditional BIOS then you are good to go. I also know that Johnny Hughes over at the CentOS team has done a ton of work cramming CentOS 7 on a bunch of ARM devices. He may have a lead for you on a tablet. > Would such tablets also run VirtualBox or VMWare Player to allow the > use of MS Win as a guest environment? The Surface Pro certainly would. It has quite a bit of power. Not sure about the low-end ARM processors though. > How much RAM and mass storage should be procured? I hate to sound like a marketer for the Surface Pro...However, the one I had was 8GB of RAM w/ a 256GB SSD. Should be plenty I would suspect. > The unit would need both USB ports as well as 802.11 support > supported drivers under Linux for Network Manager, her WLAN > application of choice). You get wifi and one USB on the Surface Pro. There is a dock which worked perfect under Ubuntu 16.04 for the Pro2, but I had issues with it crashing on the Pro3. I know there were improvements made to the support of the Surface Pro since I tested, but I no longer have the devices so my testing is all a single point in time back in March-April with 16.04 pre and initial release. Hope that helps. Good luck. And I would love to hear if you find one! ~Stack~
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