Recommendations for Android wifi tablet?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:15:41PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Thanks for all the replies.  One reason I wanted real USB (real SD
> nice but not necessary) is that once you have USB, you have access to
> all peripherals.  E.g. keyboard+mouse (on a tablet!), SD reader, USB
> key, harddrive, etc, etc.  I've got a small 1-to-4 USB port-multiplier,
> so multiple devices can be hung off it simultaneously, if need be.
> 
>   Stupid newbie question alert... how close is Android to linux?  I.e.
> can I download a tarball, uncompress it, and...
> 
> ./configure --with-various-options && make && make install

If it's one of the versions google has actually bothered to release,
then in theory yes you could.

At this point I don't consider it to be Linux.  It is based on some
version of Linux, but no longer is.  It entirely fails at following the
common development culture of Linux.

>   From reading the web, I'm somewhat leary of stuff on little-known
> "app-markets".  The larger communities (e.g. Cyanaogen Mod) appear to
> like the Opens Source community I'm used to, but the smaller sites can
> be dodgy.

Yeah that one does look interesting.

At this point I really hate android.  They have managed to kill of all
the projects that were actually making linux phones, and at the same time
they are not being at all community oriented.  They are probably at this
point the worst example of how not to do embedded linux development for
the long term.

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