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Have a look at http://maruos.com/ http://maruos.com/, the dev has an interesting idea - AOSP when the phone's working by itself, plug in a Slimport connector an

Have a look at http://maruos.com/ http://maruos.com/, the dev has an interesting idea - AOSP when the phone's working by itself, plug in a Slimport connector and pair a Bluetooth keyboard and there's Debian running, ready for you to use. I'm not sure what's going on with the project. Two months later you still have to email the developer to get a beta build, even though it was supposedly open sourced. Approaching it from the other direction, https://plus.google.com/111524780435806926688/posts/fkQ1BMjNNcn https://plus.google.com/111524780435806926688/posts/fkQ1BMjN... shows a nearly mainline kernel running on the 2013 Nexus 7, including hardware accelerated graphics. It should be a hop skip and 14 hour build step [1] to get Debian running on it. [1] repo sync -j24 / make -j24 droidcore can be painful

stegosaurus 11y ago
Very interested in the Nexus 7 progress. I may have to pick one up and grab a hardware keyboard. Killing off Android and getting X11/Wayland on there with a regular DE would be amazing. I can deal with WiFi only - a workaround would be to just carry around an android device or similar as a hotspot.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  2013 Nexus 7s appear to go for $1000 in Australia, which is insanity. I've got one here but some emails sent to me in private have caused me to hold off on running anything custom on it (email for details, not sure if I can release publically).
  - bcook 11y ago
    Wow. Can you share a reference to that insane price?
    - voltagex_ 11y ago
      http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-Nexus-7-Tablet-Quad-Core-2013-32GB-Wifi-4G-LTE-12-Month-Asus-Warranty-/351144755509?hash=item51c1dbc135:g:QagAAOSwKIpV-kyP http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-Nexus-7-Tablet-Quad-Core-201... I may have over-generalised. They're not manufactured any more, are they? At the time I found that price, I was trying to filter out all the 2012 Nexus 7's (product marketers, please don't use the year to differentiate).

stegosaurus 11y ago

Very interested in the Nexus 7 progress. I may have to pick one up and grab a hardware keyboard. Killing off Android and getting X11/Wayland on there with a regular DE would be amazing. I can deal with WiFi only - a workaround would be to just carry around an android device or similar as a hotspot.

voltagex_ 11y ago
2013 Nexus 7s appear to go for $1000 in Australia, which is insanity. I've got one here but some emails sent to me in private have caused me to hold off on running anything custom on it (email for details, not sure if I can release publically).
- bcook 11y ago
  Wow. Can you share a reference to that insane price?
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-Nexus-7-Tablet-Quad-Core-2013-32GB-Wifi-4G-LTE-12-Month-Asus-Warranty-/351144755509?hash=item51c1dbc135:g:QagAAOSwKIpV-kyP http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-Nexus-7-Tablet-Quad-Core-201... I may have over-generalised. They're not manufactured any more, are they? At the time I found that price, I was trying to filter out all the 2012 Nexus 7's (product marketers, please don't use the year to differentiate).