3 ms·
Doesn't this open the door to flashing the new AppleTV with an Android (or eventually even Debian) build?
by ja27 16y ago
Doesn't this open the door to flashing the new AppleTV with an Android (or eventually even Debian) build?
- houseabsolute 16y agoSure, but there are already a number of machines you can do that with. I'm sure there is some reason to do this, but I can't think of many good ones.
- angusgr 16y agoFWIW, Debian is probably even easier than Android (less specific hardware requirements.) However, AFAIK noone has developed a Linux kernel to run on Apple's A4 SoC, in either the iPad or AppleTV. They would be a nifty cheap choice for a MythTV frontend (among other things), but AFAIK it would be quite significant development & reverse-engineering work for proper hardware support. As the other reply says, there are lots of similar options that run Linux (and presumably Android) right now.