Interesting discussion guys ... I've been thinking myself of a new purchase along similar lines. It sounds not exactly what Russell's after, but I read a good post recently about installing Debian on a Kindle: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/kindle-root Back in ~2006 I was running Ubuntu on an Asus TabletPC, one of the ones with the convertible format with the keyboard that could be tucked behind the display. Maybe it's unlikely but someday would like to see a good pen-based tablet running an open OS at a reasonable price-point ;) -- Pat. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Ben Finney <ben+freesoftware@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Maybe I should just give up for the moment and buy something like the Zenithink as an Android ebook reader and delay my plans for a free software tablet. :(
If it's going to be a book reader, why is the Vivaldi tablet (running GNU+Linux) not an option again?
It's not just an eBook reader. While reading books is going to be a major purpose of the device web browsing will be an important use. Also the device won't be primarily used by me so there will be other unforseen demands.
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