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[brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been waiting for an ubuntu port to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.

I've rooted mine and am currently running the Android 4.x Ice Cream
Sandwich release and its really a good tablet with that OS.

But there is a huge interest in the Nook Color user world for an Ubuntu
release that can be  installed.

liputing.com/2012/01/nook-tablet-hacks-flash-a-custom-rom-or-boot-ubuntu-to-restore-os-1-4-0.html

Nook Color tablet is only $250, its dual core omap4, 1G memory, 16G
internal storage & can add upto 32G microSSD
and has the POWERVR SGX540 GPU processor and supports both Open GLES 1.1
and 2.0.

https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/product/nook-tablet-specs.html

I had ubuntu running on my single core nook color in chroot and it worked
ok but that was 1/2 the cpu & 1/2 the ram of
the new nook color tablet.

There was also a great Phoronix article this past week on Ubuntu & ARM:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armhf&num=1

Brian


On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Mitchell Reese <
mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Alan, look forward to seeing which direction things go. M
>
> Curious Mail - Sent via Linux
>
> Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi Mitchell,
> >
> >On 30/01/12 00:29, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> >> Wow. So that means then, that after Mark Shuttleworth's announcement
> >> that Ubuntu is coming to tablets, the 'officially' recommended way at
> >> the moment to join in with development is to buy a tablet that doesn't
> >> support, and quite possibly will never reliably support, hardware
> >> accelerated graphics? I find that disappointing, to say the least.
> >>
> >
> >My recommendation was based on the fact that I know it's possible to run
> >Ubuntu on one of these devices. At the moment the Ubuntu Tablet is
> >something Canonical are exploring, we don't have a lot of things nailed
> >down, including final hardware. The Transformer is good enough right now
> >to run Ubuntu, although not perfectly, it's good enough for a
> >development target during our explorations.
> >
> >> What this means is that:
> >> a. People will be unable to try anything with 12.04 until it's ported to
> >> this tablet
> >
> >I don't understand this. People have successfully installed 11.10 on
> >Transformers, and had some success with hardware acceleration.
> >
> >
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer
> >
> >It's far from perfect but people in the community are working on the
> >niggling issues by the look of it.
> >
> >> b. We are then 'stuck' with using the Unity 2D interface. There are
> >> potentially some great things about this, but personally, I'm a fan of
> >> the regular version currently shipping that requires graphics
> acceleration.
> >
> >Unity 2D uses GL acceleration too you know :) Just less of it. I too
> >like Unity, but in Ubuntu both Unity and Unity 2D are first class
> citizens.
> >
> >> c. We will most likely be developing using the modified kernel required
> >> for the transformer tablet. Admittedly I don't know much about kernel
> >> development, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the future of this
> >> project. Needing to have a modified kernel to get something to run
> >> generally points to it not being officially supported by the main
> >> project...
> >>
> >
> >Modified kernels will almost certainly be required for _any_ ARM based
> >device right now. That's a fact of life.
> >
> >> I would really like to see Canonical, and Ubuntu, succeed in the tablet
> >> market. For this to happen though, I would expect there to be some form
> >> of reasonable development device available in the near future. Alan, are
> >> you able to drop us any hints as to whether this will happen or not? At
> >> the very least, a roadmap from Canonical about tablet development would
> >> be appreciated. Thanks.
> >>
> >
> >We don't have a roadmap I can show you. We're just in the early stages
> >of exploring the tablet market and devices and have a very small team
> >looking at this. As Mark outlined in his blog post we have aspirations
> >to be on tablets, but it's very early days for us.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Al.
> >
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> >Engineering Manager
> >
> >Canonical - Product Strategy
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