Yep, if Android is not enough Linux for you, you can now get Ångström Linux for your tablet.. and it's easy to install image file.
Any takers?
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Ångström Linux now available for Archos 5 internet tablet
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Me, I'm a definite taker, I love this sort of stuff! Fun.
will this work with the older Archos 5, no, which is a shame.
It's an interesting project. Let's see how far it can go in terms of practicality!
What can we actually run on this build? a decent media player like VLC? Rull firefox? Flash? twitter client adobe air based? Proper email and pim handling program like evolution?
What about running custom builds of android on top of this? is it possible? time will tell....
To be honest the only reason I would change the original android build from archos with this is if at least these pre-requites are filled.
my two cents ...
João.
nice initiative by archos!
even so, i guess this kills the DRM system, just as it did on the earlier internet media player?
This is the same firmware that Archos announced in November, right?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/28/archos-releases-developer-edition-firmware-for-internet-tablets/
cool as a science project, but the best thing about the archos is the awesome archos player (better than VLC on Linux on this device would be Im 99.9% sure)
Of course for the "Linux for its own sake" crowd Im sure that wont matter b/c the point is really just seeing KDE for the 10,000th time :)
To me, the best thing about Android is it forces Linux to the background where it belongs much like Darwin does with UNIX.
Would XBMC feasible?
What's the point of having a full blown Linux environment on the Archos? People who buy it are more than likely buying it for it's multimedia capabilities. From what I've read, Adobe Flash doesn't work on it. You lose all the video playback support of Archos' Android build. So, you just end up with a hard to use Linux device with virtually no multimedia support.
Well for me i am using Andriod phone. I am very much satisfied with it. I don't wana go for any other option.
Another OS option...yawn...if it were Windows Mobile 7 I'd be excited. But an unpolished never will be finished never will be as polished as Android will be OS that is not even designed for finger use...eh, no thanks. Just look at their virtual keyboard on the screen shot...try using that without a stylus. One of these days people are going to come to the realization that it's no longer cool to slap a desktop-like version of Linux on every device they can. The desktop paradigm doesn't work very well for mobile devices and the Android folks get that. The Angstrom folks don't get that and as far as I can tell don't even care. It's their little science project just like OpenZaurus was and it will never be finished nor geared for mass acceptance. Now, move along please, there's nothing to see here!
I have plan to buy soon.
what about maemo/meego. that is a full desktop capable, non-cripled linux with a finger friendly ui. if you could port that to the archos i'd be impressed.
I put this on my device, however, I don't seem to have any drivers. I can't operation the wireless card, nor can I use usbnet. Has anyone been able to do this or can point me in the right direction? Thanks.
I put it on my device 2 but i dont have a thing called 'Archos helper' which i have seen in screenshots and this is ment to allow wifi and USB capabilities. I Have e-mailed the developers.
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