I have an iPad Air. Nice kit and good battery life but experience has shown the iPad is just a little too opaque and network dependent for my taste.
I was wondering if there existed a similarly sized/robust tablet that can run CentOS-6/7 that anyone would recommend? I am looking from something that I can take on international trips that I can scrub on a regular basis. But, I also desire the software that I am familiar with (CentOS, SSH, Open/Libre-Office, Inkscape, Tor Browser, Jitsi, etc.). I do not really need a GarageBand/iTunes replacement. But I do want a USB connection and the ability to run stock CentOS, not some specialised fork thereof.
I did the Google thing but that has not provided me any clear recommendations. Ubuntu seems to be the most popular distribution for these things and I am reluctant to invest the time to learn the idiosyncrasies of yet another Linux distribution. Does anyone here have any experience with this type of CentOS setup?
On 09.06.2014 14:25, James B. Byrne wrote:
I have an iPad Air. Nice kit and good battery life but experience has shown the iPad is just a little too opaque and network dependent for my taste.
I was wondering if there existed a similarly sized/robust tablet that can run CentOS-6/7 that anyone would recommend? I am looking from something that I can take on international trips that I can scrub on a regular basis. But, I also desire the software that I am familiar with (CentOS, SSH, Open/Libre-Office, Inkscape, Tor Browser, Jitsi, etc.). I do not really need a GarageBand/iTunes replacement. But I do want a USB connection and the ability to run stock CentOS, not some specialised fork thereof.
I did the Google thing but that has not provided me any clear recommendations. Ubuntu seems to be the most popular distribution for these things and I am reluctant to invest the time to learn the idiosyncrasies of yet another Linux distribution. Does anyone here have any experience with this type of CentOS setup?
I don't think there is such a tablet, I haven't heard of any. I'd strongly recommend an ultrabook.
On 06/09/2014 08:33 AM, Nux! wrote:
On 09.06.2014 14:25, James B. Byrne wrote:
I have an iPad Air. Nice kit and good battery life but experience has shown the iPad is just a little too opaque and network dependent for my taste.
I was wondering if there existed a similarly sized/robust tablet that can run CentOS-6/7 that anyone would recommend? I am looking from something that I can take on international trips that I can scrub on a regular basis. But, I also desire the software that I am familiar with (CentOS, SSH, Open/Libre-Office, Inkscape, Tor Browser, Jitsi, etc.). I do not really need a GarageBand/iTunes replacement. But I do want a USB connection and the ability to run stock CentOS, not some specialised fork thereof.
I did the Google thing but that has not provided me any clear recommendations. Ubuntu seems to be the most popular distribution for these things and I am reluctant to invest the time to learn the idiosyncrasies of yet another Linux distribution. Does anyone here have any experience with this type of CentOS setup?
I don't think there is such a tablet, I haven't heard of any. I'd strongly recommend an ultrabook.
I agree with this .. there is no tablet that I know of that will run CentOS-6 ... not even the ultrabook with touch screens will work well with that. At least not the touch functionality.
However, the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga-2 series and the Helix series both work well with Fedora-19 including some touch functionality ... so those should also work with the upcoming CentOS-7 (or RHEL-7).
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 09:00 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
However, the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga-2 series and the Helix series both work well with Fedora-19 including some touch functionality ... so those should also work with the upcoming CentOS-7 (or RHEL-7).
Welcome progress at last. I dream of Centos on everything - even mobile phones :-)
On 6/9/2014 6:25 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
was wondering if there existed a similarly sized/robust tablet that can run CentOS-6/7 that anyone would recommend? I am looking from something that I can take on international trips that I can scrub on a regular basis. But, I also desire the software that I am familiar with (CentOS, SSH, Open/Libre-Office, Inkscape, Tor Browser, Jitsi, etc.). I do not really need a GarageBand/iTunes replacement. But I do want a USB connection and the ability to run stock CentOS, not some specialised fork thereof.
centos stock doesn't have much in the way of touch screen UI. using a touchscreen as a mouse replacement is clumsy and awkward at best.
an x86 PC compatible tablet would be a real battery pig, too. my 10" android tablet has 1GB ram, and 16GB flash, and runs for a week of moderate use on a charge, its not even 1/4" thick and weighs ounces.
It *is* possible you could run CentOS on the new Microsoft Surface Pro, as thats running Windows 8.1 x86, not some ARM or MIPS version.
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