F13/F14 on an iPad ?
Vaclav Mocek
little.owl at email.cz
Sat Oct 23 16:04:53 UTC 2010
The problem is that ARM is for Fedora the secondary architecture; unless
it is changed I don't expect we can use it with some tablets.
V.M.
On 10/22/2010 05:10 PM, James Szinger wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Michael Cronenworth<mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
>
>> I would have little interest
>> in it anyway as the device is overpriced. Typical of a Mac product.
>>
>> You're better off buying a tablet laptop and installing Fedora on that.
>> Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834110420
>>
> The computer you show is bigger, costs twice as much, weight three
> times as much, and has half the battery life of an iPad. They aren't
> really competing in the same market. Where are the less expensive
> tablets? My wild-assed guess is that in the coming year we'll get
> some android tablets on the market. The cheap one will cost less than
> an iPad, but will be mostly crap. The good ones will have a hard time
> competing with the iPad on price. The Samsung Galaxy Tab will cost
> the same as an iPad in the UK:
>
> <http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/22/tesco_samsung_galaxy_tab/>
>
> I don't own an iPad, and have no plans to buy one, but I don't accept
> that they are fundamentally overpriced. I also agree that attempting
> to install Fedora on an iPad is not a good idea.
>
> A more interesting project is to install Fedora or some other real
> Linux distro on a android device. My limited web searching didn't
> reveal any easy answers.
>
> Jim
>
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