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Re: [trinity-users] KDE 3.5 on Debian Lenny on a JXD S18 Mini Pad with Linux-On-Android

From: Andy <Andy4stuff@...>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:12:45 -0400
On Friday 23 August 2013 09:24:20 pm Alexandre Couture wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a couple of pictures I took of my little Android 4.1 tablet running
> Debian Lenny with Linux-On-Android. The machine is a JXD S18 Mini Pad. It
> cost +- 50$ on Ebay and it has a 1Ghz RockChip rk2928 Arm cpu with 512mb of
> RAM, a 4.x inch screen and, of course, Wi-Fi. It has 4gb of internal flash
> memory and I bought a 16gb microSDHC card to use in its memory card slot.
> Once it is rooted, it can run Linux-On-Android, with a choice of a few
> Arm-compatible distros.
>
> I installed KDE 3.5.10 on it and it works, although it is not much of any
> real use since the display resolution is only 480x272. It is a little slow,
> because Android still run in the background and it gets quite low on RAM,
> but it is approximately as fast as a Pentium 2 on Linux. Even
> OpenOffice.org and IceWeasel works! On a bigger Android tablet, it could be
> interesting to use it as an ''Amarok machine''
>
> Have a nice day!
> -Alexandre

Cool!     :-)