ubuntu-tablet team mailing list archive

[brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

I already run Ubuntu 11.10 in a "chroot" of Android on the Nook.   But I
just want to overwrite Android with a decent linux.
I also already using a modified Ubuntu with KDE & the Plasmoid Widgets on
my 10 inch ExoPC tablet.   But its Atom n450 based and not ARM.
In both cases Ubuntu worked well.   Multi-touch even works.    From what
Canonical has told me quite a bit of effort has gone into ARM for 12.04
release in April.

Several Distributions are working hard on ARM support now but here's the
web info from Canonical:
ARM Processor

ARM is a processor architecture used in a variety of applications, such as:

   - Handheld Computers (Nokia n900, n95, etc.)
   - Network Devices (Genesi Efika MX Nettop, Wyse T50,
CompuLab<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompuLab>
   TrimSlice <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrimSlice>, etc.) Project development
   boards (Beagleboard, Pandaboard, Quickstart, etc.)
   - Subnotebooks (Sharp Netwalker, etc.)
   - Netbook/Notebooks (Genesi Efika MX Smartbook, Toshiba AC100, etc.)

Ubuntu targets the ARMv7 and above Application Processor family (Cortex A8,
A9 and above). Currently the archive supports ARM EABI, with an expectation
of minimum compliance with the ARMv7+VFP ISA. Where possible Ubuntu targets
the Thumb2 <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Thumb2> instruction set.

Limited support for earlier instruction sets (ARMv5t, ARMv6) was available
in early releases of the ARM port (jaunty, karmic).

Status

   - Much of the application porting is complete
   - Installation images are available for selected boards
   - kernels for a variety of sub-architectures are available
   - Much of SMP validation complete
   - Continued porting and optimization is underway

Current Images

ARM Team

   - OMAP: Texas Instruments OMAP <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAP> page
   - Tegra (AC100): Thosiba AC100 Nvidia Tegra
2<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100>page
   - IMX53 QuickStart <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuickStart>: Freescale IMX53
   QuickStart Board <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/iMX5> Page
   - Server images (for OMAP3/4 so far)
ARM/ServerInstall<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/ServerInstall>


Brian

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Sandy Martin <siegfried_m22@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I also love this. I own a Nook 7 inch tablet and that would be amazing if
> and ubuntu tablet OS went on that.
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Mitchell Reese <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* ubuntu-tablet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:11:31 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Ubuntu tablet
>
> I love this concept...
>
> Mitchell
>
> Curious Mail - Sent via Linux
>
> brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why not target a favorite distro to a couple of the most popular existing
> tablets
>
> Low-priced media tablets showed tremendous sales growth in 2011, with an
> estimated 7.5 million units combined from *Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
> *
> iHS found that tablets from those two companies accounted for 11 percent
> of the TOTAL tablet market<http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/News/Pages/Apples-Toughest-Competition-in-the-Fourth-Quarter-Tablet-Market-Was-Apple.aspx>.
>
>
> B&N and Amazon's Nook/Kindle tables rapid market-share grab didn’t hurt
> Apple iPads sales but it did appear to hold back sales of other Android
> tablets.
>
> I own a Nook Tablet and its hw specs include OMAP4 dual core, IPS
> displays, graphics hw accel, wifi bgn, bluetooth, 1G ram, 16G internal
> storage, supports usb, 32GB uSSD, no camera or HDMI.
>
> I'd love to get a native linux onto this tablet which is great hw for $249
> with Ebay happening to have a sale of new from B&N for just $200 through
> this weekend.
>
> Canonical's ARM work has really accelerated over the past year, work with
> Linaro.org's ARM effort and I think they are going to support OMAP4 as one
> target.
>
> Why not focus and target the most popular existing market leaders...
> Nook, and Kindle Tablets and maybe Samsung and/or ASUS.
>
> Those tablets are all popular for a reason... price, quality of
> components, hackability (Nooks are great at this), or hw specs... sometimes
> its just because of the OS (android v3.x versus v4.x).
>
> HW manufacturing is expensive even if its outsourced for any new tablet.
>
> Why not build Distro support for what could be an existing community of
> potential tablet users and enable others to just go buy one of those and
> install linux easily ?
>
>
>
>
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