Re: [LUG] Freeing up my Nexus 7

[Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/02/14 16:02, Tremayne, Steve wrote:

Hmmm… ok Tom, I’ll have a look at that too.

 

At the moment I’m open to all the options – Matt made CyanogenMod seem almost too easy

 

The bit that scares me is the Ubuntu one liner: “It is an experimental development snapshot that can potentially brick your device”… the other sofa surfers would kill me…

 

Cheers,

 

Steve

 

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Freeing up my Nexus 7

 

On 28/02/14 14:50, Tremayne, Steve wrote:

OK, LPIC question aside…

 

I’ve just given in to family pressure and bought a “tablet” for sofa surfing (even though I’m building another MythTV box which can do it anyway…) … but the ambient temperature of hell would have to reach absolute zero before I gave money to Apple :o)

 

So, I got a Nexus… and the first thing it wants to do is lock me in to the googlesphere… right then (I think), time to break free

 

So, I’ve heard of CyanogenMod and F-Droid, but before I get too heavily involved (or brick it!), I thought I’d ask if anyone has any recommendations about freeing up “my” (not google’s) device?

 

TIA

 

Steve

 

If I had a Nexus 7 I'd head over to ubuntu and try out the ubuntu touch they have for it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
and see where that goes...
Tom te tom te tom

My argument against cyanogenmod is it is to android what open office is to MS office - copying the wrong thing to do with your computer. Ubuntu touch (I'm hoping) will theoretically allow ./configure on a million free and not hastily written apps that run on your linux boxes around the house. I've got a Nexus 5 and that wont be supported for a long while alas. It does have the AIDE on it so I can develop in C++ ( and several other languages) should I please but I'd rather just port libraries to ARM for linux and not have to actually reinvent a thousand square wheels that have been rounded off in Linux already!
Tom te tom te tom

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