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Most web designers left frames in the 90sMost web designers left frames in the 90sPosted Sep 21, 2011 21:01 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: Most web designers left frames in the 90s by rsidd Parent article: Bray: Preparing for [Android] Handsets
Would you happen to have a tutorial somewhere for how to do that? I've been mulling over an ASUS Transformer for a while, but would like to also run my actual setup on it as well.
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Most web designers left frames in the 90s Posted Sep 21, 2011 21:02 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Ack. Missed the reply you gave to callegar.
Most web designers left frames in the 90s Posted Sep 22, 2011 5:21 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] The transformer looks like a very nice device. The chroot should work fine on it (with adjustment to the vncserver resolution), especially if the 32GB internal storage includes a sizeable linux-friendly filesystem or can be repartitioned -- but in any case, the device seems to include an SDcard slot and you can always run the linux chroot off that. Of the current devices out there, I'd go for it (I especially like the included keyboard dock). My tablet, the Adam, is sold online-only by a rather weird and secretive company, Notion Ink. Its big advantage is its transflective (Pixel Qi) screen, which lets me switch off the backlight when the ambient light is bright enough (and keep it at minimum brightness otherwise), and is very readable in sunlight. But in all other respects, the Transformer would seem a much nicer device. The chroot'd XFCE currently displays on vncserver and I view it with an android VNC viewer. But there is a project to develop an X server for android: I'm hoping to get that working soon.
Most web designers left frames in the 90s Posted Sep 22, 2011 6:06 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
The ASUS transformer is quite a nice device, but it appears to be un-rootable at the moment so a chroot environment it out of the question.
More info: http://androidroot.mobi/2011/08/26/b70-and-beyond/
That is - unless you can find with with a serial number below B70
Most web designers left frames in the 90s Posted Sep 22, 2011 6:22 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Ah, that's too bad. I wonder whether it's Asus or Nvidia that's to blame. Incidentally, the Adam too uses Nvidia Tegra and every problem that it has can be attributed to Nvidia's closed/proprietary blobs (while, on the plus side, Notion Ink seems to be the most actively hacker-friendly manufacturer out there).
Asus are shutting off a potential market by doing this. If they were smart, they'd do exactly the opposite: get an official, polished linux chroot running, and market the thing to scientists as a scientific tablet-computer.
Apple were smart enough to see how attractive the Unix roots of Mac OS X were to scientists, and macs have taken over the formerly linux-dominated academia...
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