<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hanvon bc10 touchpad (also samsung galaxy s :)<br><br>Being a glutton for punishment<br>I wanted something to play with<br><br>getting linux install is EASY :)<br>no touchscreen yet and wireless a pain <br>(but can use a belkin 54g usb for wirless, anyone know of another wireless usb that just works?)<br><br>ubuntu 10.4 (64bit)<br>ubuntu netbook<br>both where installed via wubi<br><br>but can run linux livecd off usb dvd no probs<br><br>anyone else tinkering??<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 16/7/10, Michael Holland <i><michael.holland@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Michael Holland <michael.holland@gmail.com><br>Subject: [plug] Linux tablets.<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Received: Friday, 16 July, 2010, 2:29 PM<br><br><div
id="yiv1006500178"><br><br><div class="yiv1006500178gmail_quote">On 15 July 2010 22:38, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:demo9@gswd.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=demo9@gswd.com">demo9@gswd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1006500178gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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BTW, good to see at least one other very wise N900 owner on the list (besides myself of course)....<br></blockquote></div><br>We doing a head count? +1 Can't really compare it to an iPad though.<br>I have to say the iPad web browser is amazingly good for an ARM-powered device. Feels faster than the N900. Not good enough to counter the pervasive evil that forbids you running apps that Steve has not approved, like firefox or Flash, or VoIP :-)<br>
Given the ipad's apparent success, we should see plenty of Linux-capable tablets coming soon.<br>But what Linux? The Nokia and Intel collaboration on Meego looks promising. <br><br>
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