I found this netbook(?) somewhere in old things and just wonder: can linux be installed on it?
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2 yearsIt’s already running Linux. You just showed us a screenshot of it running Android, which is Linux.
I honestly preferred the people who insist on calling it GNU/Linux over the people who think Android should be called Linux.
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For better or worse the more correct name GNU/Linux did not catch on and is universally shortened to Linux. Android uses the Linux kernel, but is not GNU/Linux, and therefore is not Linux.
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I don’t know if it’s that cut and dry. If you study a Operative Systems class or buy a book about them, it’ll exclusively deal with the kernel.
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If you can give a reference to any such book, I’d be very interested to see it.
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Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne is a classic OS textbook. Andrew Tanenbaum has some OS books too. I really liked his OS Design and Implementation book but I’m pretty sure that one is super outdated by now. I have not read his newer one but it is called Modern Operating Systems iirc.
I think you would need to provide more detail to know what you have. Does it have a model number on it anywhere?
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that’s it: CPU: WM8650 800Hz Memory:DDR 256MB
It’s information on back cover
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Surely its easier to install Linux than android.
I want to know how they put android on it
I mean, the internals might just be the ones of a tablet or something. With android I’d be guessing its an ARM chip
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Wut. This thing is like a decade old at least. Did we use ARM back then?
ARM chips were common in phones, even 10 years ago. But after doing a bit of research, there seems to be an unofficial open source version of android made to run on x86. Might be that this thing is running that. No idea, really
