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Ubuntu coming to tablets starting with Nexus 7 quad core tablet

From 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>
Subject Ubuntu coming to tablets starting with Nexus 7 quad core tablet
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.embedded
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Date 2012-10-21 16:02 +0100

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bbgruff wrote:

> 7 wrote:
> 
>> Ubuntu coming to tablets starting with Nexus 7 quad core tablet
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> http://liliputing.com/2012/10/ubuntu-linux-coming-to-tablets-starting-with-the-google-nexus-7.html
>> 
>> 
>> Already someone has it working:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_2tGHfmM-TU
>> 
>> 
>> Waaaa!! I want one!!!
> 
> No you don't.
> You want to wait until we see what comes of next week's Ubuntu Developers'
> Summit (Mark S has asked them to bring their Nexus 7s with them), and then
> you want to wait for the rumoured Nexus 10 :-)


That means I need three arms and three eyes to operate
the Nexus 7, Gemei G2 tablet AND the Nexus 10 at the same time!

I got the Gemei G2 to put Lubuntu on it.
If the developer's summit put Ubuntu on Nexus 7, then I want that too.
If a Nexus 10 is coming out with Ubuntu, then I probably want that too.

All for a good cause. I got a tablet developer system,
and if I can get my head around the electronics, LCD and porting
by learning from those that already work, then I can build my
own Ubuntu tablet!! :-D   So far, just to read the documentation
has got me dizzy. Its just too much to take in. Designed more
for a team than hobbyists tinkering to make such a 'trivial' toy.

[ A note to manufacturers:  THERE HAD GOT TO BE BETTER WAYS TO MAKE TABLETS!
All ARMs should by default boot from SDCard like a PC and documentation
has to be 100% for all internal peripherals such as video and graphics
accelerators! Its your funeral if you are forced to hold back such information!!
Your investors demand maximum sales and the only way you can guarantee that
without cheating the investor is to document ALL parts of a SoC to allow
software engineers to port Linux for the chip and make more sales from it! ]

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