On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/24/2012 01:07 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >> On 24/04/2012 21:46, James wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_101it/tabletpc.html?country=kg&lang=en >>> >>> >>> >>> > I'm just curious if anyone has attempted to put Gentoo >>> on any Archos tablet. >>> >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> >>> >> i have one and i dont want to risk it's usage with gentoo. i know >> that there is an ubunut version that works on it but just installing >> gentoo like this can be tough. > > This is the first I've heard of Archos, and it seems to me like a great idea. > > The company says you can install any OS you want, and you can even dual-boot > OS's -- so that *seems* to imply that you can re-install the factory OS if > your experiments go bad. Am I being too optimistic here?
They've been fairly open for ages. When I was in high school, they had a portable MP3/MPEG player out that you could put Linux on. This was just after the first-gen iPod, IIRC, and long before the iPod Touch was a glimmer in Jobs' eye. -- :wq
