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On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote: |
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>> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet |
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>>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is |
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>>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) |
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>>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux |
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>>> friendly that are worth looking at? |
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>>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has just |
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>>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so its |
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>>> time to move on :( |
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>>> BillK |
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>>> |
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>> Aquaris M10 |
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>> https://store.bq.com/gl/ |
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> Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? |
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Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings in |
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the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :) I did |
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eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that with a |
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failing battery, it wasn't worth it :( |
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The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens |
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trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the NVMe |
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ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :) |
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EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work! My last efi adventure |
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was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) - it |
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hasn't progressed much in that time. |
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BillK |
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