Tablet Acer Iconia W500, anyone?

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi there,

Googling around I found with a little work I can run Fedora on that Tablet.
Only wish it didn't came with Windows Pro, I could save a few bucks if it
was Windows Home Basic.

Anyone on the list tried this? Do you think this machine with F15 or F16
would be a useable tablet? Andoid is not yet open enough for my taste ;-)
[]s, Fernando Lozano

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 16:36,   wrote:
> Googling around I found with a little work I can run Fedora on that Tablet.
> Only wish it didn't came with Windows Pro, I could save a few bucks if it
> was Windows Home Basic.

The Iconia tab is an x86 PC, more precisely an AMD Fusion based tablet.

It will run any x86 OS you throw at it.

FC

[John Wendel]

On 11/29/2011 11:36 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Googling around I found with a little work I can run Fedora on that 
> Tablet. Only wish it didn't came with Windows Pro, I could save a few 
> bucks if it was Windows Home Basic.
>
> Anyone on the list tried this? Do you think this machine with F15 or 
> F16 would be a useable tablet? Andoid is not yet open enough for my 
> taste ;-)
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano

It's my understanding that Google has released the complete source for 
the latest Android. Someone please correct if I'm wrong.

John

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:33, John Wendel  wrote:
> It's my understanding that Google has released the complete source for the
> latest Android. Someone please correct if I'm wrong.
>
> John

Android is an x86 OS?

FC

[Emilio Lopez]

Anybody knows if there are any attempt to port fedora to other tabs
(non x86) hardware, as Samsung Galaxy Tab??

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:39:57 -0300
Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:33, John Wendel  wrote:
> > It's my understanding that Google has released the complete source for the
> > latest Android. Someone please correct if I'm wrong.
> >
> > John
>
> Android is an x86 OS?

It can be - although all current Android devices on the market are I
believe ARM based. See android-x86.org.

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:22, Alan Cox  wrote:
> It can be - although all current Android devices on the market are I
> believe ARM based. See android-x86.org.

Thanks!. I heard about some "porting effort" but wasn´t aware they had
produced working versions already.

FC