Mark Allums wrote:
From: Richard Owlett Carl Fink wrote:On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:All things considered, everything went quite smoothly.Cool. Now if only there was an equivalent "goodbye-android.com" for my tablet ...AGREED. I bought an Android Tablet {Lenovo A2107A-F} thinking I was getting something with Linux like useability. Error ;<If you get root on it, you can use it like any *nix machine. Getting root is the hard part. I will not assist in this, because it is now illegal to root tablets in the US that were not already pwned before Jan 1, 2013.
Can you support that broad a statement.The unit I purchased not only did not have a sim card but explicitly did not have the capability to have one added later. [i.e. I explicitly do not have any carrier imposed contractual restrictions. As to voiding a valueless warranty ... ]
For non US residents, there are instructions to beGoogled for. A popular package to install on tablets is Clockwork Mod, or CM.
I thought I saw a reference that someone was working on a Debian for it. Can't find reference at the moment. Will have to Google again.There are ways to get Ubuntu on some tablets, like the Nexus 7. A Debian port would not surprise me. I installed Debian on a Windows machine recently using goodbye-Microsoft. It is out-of-date, but it works. It will allow you to partition the HD and dual-boot Debian and Windows. Win 8 even works, but you have to run goodbye-Microsoft in Win 7 compatibility mode.