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Bodhi ARMHF Alpha for Nexus 7

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Bodhi ARMHF Alpha for Nexus 7 Earlier this month we collected enough donations that I was able to pick up a Nexus 7 to do some development work on for Bodhi. Today I would like to share our first public images for the Nexus 7. They install, they boot up, and they are semi functional. By that I mean the touchscreen and wireless work OOTB and the interface runs smoothly on the device. I havent had time to try and make audio work fully yet - but I have gotten some noise to come out of the speakers. With the help of my lovely fiance I filmed the following short demo video of Bodhi running on the device: Anywho - installing Bodhi on the Nexus 7 follows the same process as installing Ubuntu on the device. I dont have an automated installer finished just yet so you will need to install the Bodhi images using a manual install process. This can be done using the following steps: Step 0 - Getting the Tools Installing Bodhi on the Nexus 7 can be done from any Linux distribution so long as you hav...

Bodhi Linux Nexus 7 Drive

Bodhi Linux Nexus 7 Drive So I was on the Kernel Panic Ogg cast last night (the episode should be for download later this weekend). While we where discussing a number of things related to Bodhi our ARM port and tablet interface came up. ARM hardware is a very different beast from your normal x86/64bit devices. Meaning even if you have functional kernel drivers for a given device - you still often need a seperate file system images for each device you wish to be easily installable on. Currently we provide easy to install ARM images for the RaspBerry Pi and the Genesi Smartbook - the latter of which I am actually writing this post from. By the end of this month I hope to be able to add the MK802 Ive written a bit about to our support devices as well. The point of this post however is to see how much interest there is in us creating a Bodhi image for the new Nexus 7 tablet. Ive had a couple of users express interest about it on our forums and there was positive buzz about it on the Og...