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Well, I took the plunge and picked up a Nexus 7 (16GB) which I
promptly reflashed to Ubuntu 12.10 according to the instructions
below. It was an effortless process which left the device with a 7"
Unity desktop, touch screen and a soft keyboard. It behaves exactly
the same as the PC desktop and is just as functional modulo some
issues with clicking on buttons that are now just large enough to
see. Package management works and has a surprisingly large number
of apps ready to go for the ARM-hardfloat arch. Wifi works well as
does USB expansion (ethernet and disk) with the appropriate OTG
cable. Performance is slower than the native Android but reasonable
(seems to be a little short on RAM).<br>
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There are a few bugs that pop up - the system doesn't appear to
react to screen "clicks" from time to time. These are cleared with
a quick reboot. Some tailoring for the small form-factor is going
to be needed as well.<br>
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Also today, I came across Ubuntu for Android. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/features-and-specs">http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android/features-and-specs</a><br>
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Looks like Canonical wants Ubuntu to be the killer app for Android.
Given the way 12.10 runs natively on the Nexus 7 hardware, it
should not be a stretch.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/01/2012 05:13 PM, Chamunks
Arkturus wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAN4GX9GvL=aLgBy2agAUCSqFV7coDvvZa1WveCqY-0PtGx15JA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I think that if I we're you since it seems that no
one's responded to this I'd check out the bugtracker. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7" class="vt-p">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7</a>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:45 PM, L.D.
Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Has anyone
out there tried this?<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation"
target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation</a><br>
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Apparently it is a development project at this point, but
the reported<br>
bugs do not include the terms "initrd", "soft lock" nor even
"wifi" so<br>
it might not be too bad...<br>
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