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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:25:40 +0100 (BST), Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Rob Beard wrote: > >> As for running Linux on a tablet, what is the state of things like X or >> Wayland? It seems that a lot of the tablets I've looked at have 3 or 4 >> different GPUs, are drivers available for all of these? > > Who cares. > > I mean really. Who cares & what's the point. > > I recently bought myself a 8" tablet for some experiments. I've teamed it > up with a little keyboard. It tethers to my Phone with its giffgaff sim > and it runs ssh, web, has a local filesystem, can view photos, videos and > play games. > > And for that purpose it's just fine. > > I'm not developing on it, I don't want to stunt its graphics, or run its > batterys flat with X - it's a user tool, not a development platform. > > What am I missing? > > Gordon To be fair it's fairly similar to what I use my Nook for. I did try rooting it but found that with stock Android (Cyanogenmod) it wasn't very efficient with the battery, and with the Android market I can get most things I need. Just need to find a little Bluetooth keyboard for it, no doubt I'd be able to find something on eBay. My only gripe is the audio quality through headphones when listening to music is a bit rubbish and it doesn't have a camera for Skype, but then I have my phone for that, for everything else it's great and only cost me about 80 quid. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq