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Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff. Is battery life worth it?
It has an arm64 CPU. It looks like this will be the first cheap, easily obtainable and hackable (?) arm64 hardware out there. I'm writing the arm64 Go compiler. I wonder if it's feasible to start testing on this machine too (e.g. how open it really is, how hard is to get a sane working environment, etc).
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Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff. Is battery life worth it?
There is a blog about it here: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
It bothers me that we've lost the meaning of "memory" in the technical marketing of mobile gadgets. "Memory: 16 GB & 32 GB." Google, of course, means storage.
It has an arm64 CPU. It looks like this will be the first cheap, easily obtainable and hackable (?) arm64 hardware out there. I'm writing the arm64 Go compiler. I wonder if it's feasible to start testing on this machine too (e.g. how open it really is, how hard is to get a sane working environment, etc).
Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff. Is battery life worth it?
Honestly, not really. It's cumbersome, slow and really takes too much effort. There are Atom transformer tablets that come with Win 8 and have Linux installable that are way better for that job.
So is it confirmed that there's no new Nexus 7? What is the best new alternative with some kind of clean Android mini tablet?
Are they just of the impression that phablets will eat small tablets?
(I should say that of course there is SOME market for larger tablets out there. If they were producing a Nexus 7 and a Nexus 9, that would make more sense. But I thought that both expert consensus and sales were clear: the market for small tablets is much bigger than the market for big tablets. Unless you believe that small tablets are going to get replaced by phablets).
Anyone have experience installing Linux on an Android tablet to use for development work? I'd love to use it with tmux/vim to hack on stuff. Is battery life worth it?
A lot of people have used an SSH client on a tablet for development on a VPS or other server. There is a blog about it here: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
I'm kind of curious what the secret sauce is that makes Google think they are ready to sell a premium-priced tablet. Lollipop may be better than iOS 8 but is that enough to overcome the app gap?
(Anecdata: my wife had her ipad mini stolen last week. We have 5 Android devices in the house, but as long as Civilization is only available on iOS this isn't a serious contender for a replacement.)
Apple finally admitted that bigger phones are better. Looks like Google is finally admitting that 4:3 is the right tablet aspect ratio. I'm kind of curious what the secret sauce is that makes Google think they are ready to sell a premium-priced tablet. Lollipop may be better than iOS 8 but is that enough to overcome the app gap? (Anecdata: my wife had her ipad mini stolen last week. We have 5 Android devices in the h…