There are terminal apps you can install, and there may even be emacs you can install without rooting. That said, there are several distrobutions of a more standard Linux that you can install if you have root. They basically run as an application in the background, and you can VNC into them for a touch screen linux experience. It's much like using VMware on a PC -- but since the Android kernel is a Linux kernel, the guest Linux installs can share the running kernel. It behaves to the user like a VMware install, but acts more like a chroot with GUI. http://linuxonandroid.org/ for more information. To confuse the issue, while you can install Ubuntu that way, Ubuntu for Android is an entirely different beast -- Cannoical is creating a Ubuntu version that will run on android, and is geared towards giving a Linux experience when the device is plugged into peripherals. My impression was it was to be installed by the OEM, and would trigger a Linux desktop to start when plugged into a webtop (http://tinyurl.com/af6t4cf image for the curious) -- but it was my impression that that hardware was dying... Jeff On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > At least with Android, you already have Linux on your tablet. Android > uses Linux as it's base operating system then adds a Java/Native mix of > user interface on top of that. The confusion comes in that many stock > Android installations prevent or limit your access to the Linux portions. > There are Apps in the Google Play store that will get you a Linux console, > but it's usually pretty limited in it's privileges. > > "Rooting" your tablet/phone allows you to have root access to this Linux. > Basically you are replacing the manufactures OS with one that has been > built from the open source, and allows you superuser access. > > --- > Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those > 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," > Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, > (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> > *To:* TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 8:19 AM > *Subject:* [tclug-list] Linux on a tablet? > > I'm confused about having linux on a tablet. I've seen instructions for > how to "root" your, say, Nexus 10. What does this do? I'd like to put a > linux on a tablet and be able to use Emacs (for org-mode!) and a terminal. > Does "rooting" a tablet give me some sort of linux with touch screen > capabilities? Or is it just a regular linux on a laptop from that point? > > O > GM,MN > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130215/8255d44b/attachment.html>