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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 04/24/2012 01:07 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: |
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>> On 24/04/2012 21:46, James wrote: |
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>>> http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/tabletpc.html?country=kg&lang=en |
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> I'm just curious if anyone has attempted to put Gentoo |
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>>> on any Archos tablet. |
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>>> James |
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>> i have one and i dont want to risk it's usage with gentoo. i know |
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>> that there is an ubunut version that works on it but just installing |
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>> gentoo like this can be tough. |
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> This is the first I've heard of Archos, and it seems to me like a great idea. |
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> The company says you can install any OS you want, and you can even dual-boot |
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> OS's -- so that *seems* to imply that you can re-install the factory OS if |
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> your experiments go bad. Am I being too optimistic here? |
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They've been fairly open for ages. When I was in high school, they had |
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a portable MP3/MPEG player out that you could put Linux on. This was |
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just after the first-gen iPod, IIRC, and long before the iPod Touch |
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was a glimmer in Jobs' eye. |
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