On 30/03/13 00:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 29 March 2013 20:03, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch >> screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian >> GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this >> hardware, is that true? >> > > I'm not familiar with that model, but yes it should be possible to run > Debian on that machine and well any other typical machine that has > windows 8. > > For ubuntu hardware support you can see this website: > https://friendly.ubuntu.com/ which doesn't seem to have explicit > support listed at the moment. >
Please also see the touchscreen wiki I created: http://wiki.debian.org/TabletAndTouchScreen and please feel free to share your experience through the debian-user list > While there is no fluid keyboard/touch interface combination as one > gets with Window 8 Metro style UI, I would expect both to work in a > dual screen like manner. > You may want to consider a stylus for the touch screen (make sure to > get a capacitive one). > > I'd recommend you to take further discussion about prospective > hardware support to our Debian Users Mailing list: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > As this is not an on-topic discussion for debian-devel. > >> Thanks :) >> > > No problem. > > Regards, > > Dmitrijs. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5156a473.6010...@pocock.com.au
