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
Posted Sep 22, 2011 6:22 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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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...