Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android 109
New submitter garbagechuteflyboy writes "The PengPod is the first dual-booting tablet; It's able to run both Linux and Android. Pengpod is now running the latest Plasma Active which gives this powerful Linux tablet features that were previously only available to iPad and Android tablets. PengPod is currently selling pre-orders on Indiegogo." garbagechuteflyboy adds links to articles about the dual-OS tablet at liliputing, at Ars Technica, and at PCWorld. "First dual-booting tablet" seems like a hard claim to back, but it's nice to see a tablet marketed with Plasma Active in mind.
The PengPod folks are vague (Score:3, Informative)
Why won't they list the so called "Android's restrictions?"
They appear to have made up this statement...just for fun.
Re:Resistive Screen (Score:4, Informative)
I was about to sign up for one of these earlier this week, but the specs seem to indicate a resistive screen. After trying one of the cheap Chinese made Android tabs with a resistive screen, no thanks. I could deal with a bit less speed or memory, but the screen's got to be capacitive.
It has a capacitive screen
Dupe (Score:5, Informative)
garbagechuteflyboy adds links to articles about the dual-OS tablet at liliputing, at Ars Technica, and at PCWorld.
How about a link to Slashdot [slashdot.org]'s story a week ago.
Re:you mean GNU and Android (Score:3, Informative)
Slashdot doing advertorials now? (Score:4, Informative)
Chinese tablets have been doing this for ages. I have a 7" tablet I bought a few years ago that ...GASP... boots THREE Operating Systems!! Android, Windows CE, and Linux.
This is absolutely nothing new or unique. Quite frankly, I'm astonished this is being covered by Slashdot like this, unless they are getting advertising revenues from the HK vendor that sells it.
Re:Resistive Screen (Score:4, Informative)
Re:you mean GNU and Android (Score:3, Informative)
people have a tendency to forget that Android is Linux.
No, It's an OS that uses Linux for a kernel. That's an important distinction that people tend to forget, mostly because of the fact that until Android, just about any OS using Linux also used GNU. With that fact changing, people should realize that GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are different, and therefore incompatible.
Re:First? (Score:3, Informative)
"Used to"? I'm still rocking the N900, with Maemo and Debian GNU/Linux wheezy dual-boot.
There's also Arch, Ubuntu, etc. Many also run one of these distributions in a Maemo chroot. I bet it would have WebOS ported to it if only it had more power. Android is also ported via Nitdroid (although I hear newer versions such as ICS run too slowly).