> can you ssh into these devices Yes: http://askubuntu.com/q/348714/7808 http://askubuntu.com/q/348714/7808 > run standard unix tools Yes. What you get is a

> can you ssh into these devices Yes: http://askubuntu.com/q/348714/7808 http://askubuntu.com/q/348714/7808 > run standard unix tools Yes. What you get is a shell prompt that pretty much matches what you'd expect. bash and readline, GNU coreutils, tab completion, etc. The ssh client is available. > Can you plug a USB-to-ethernet adapter into them? No idea. This might be tougher as it would involve some level of interfacing with the kernel (which is a bit special as it's Android-based) and perhaps interference with the phone's network management UI (Network Manager based). Also, you don't get working apt-get unless you remount the root filesystem read-write, in which case you lose image-based updates (the only supported update mechanism). But your home directory is read-write and you can do what you like in there.