As I understand it, the intent of this beta release isn't to provide a nice user interface. I gather that's coming. It's to ensure all the underlying hardware-related OS stuff works well on this one reference platform. WiFi, battery life, camera, on screen keyboard, rotation (which is still in progress, apparently), etc...<br>
<br>Darcy.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Raul Suarez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rarsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rarsa@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>I did it last week, Installing was a breeze, Instructions to reflash the stock android also a breeze</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">The good:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
- Great job to make it run, most of what I tested works (I couldn't get sound) Wifi worked and the browsed worked well.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">Where it still needs improvement:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
- To slow to be usable</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">- Font too small</div><div></div><div> </div><div>
Note that this is not the same solution as having Ubuntu and Android side by side on the device.</div><div><br></div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>
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 <div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1">  <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> L.D. Paniak <<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>><br>
 <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:45:58 PM<br>
 <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [kwlug-disc] Nexus7/Installation - Ubuntu Wiki<br> </font> </div><div><div class="h5"> <br>Has anyone out there tried this?<br><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation</a><br>
<br>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
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