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PDA1
December 28th, 2013, 06:58 PM
We'd like to get a tablet (maybe a Galaxy) and want to put Ubuntu on it.

Or can a tablet running "android" have android removed and replaced entirely with Ubuntu?

Or, can android be completely isolated so that you have a dual boot situation?

I've read a lot of stuff on the web about installing Ubuntu on a tablet and most of it seems experimental at best, poorly written and very "iffy". (that is- maybe it works....maybe it's not stable/reliable).

I'm looking to hear from only those of you who have installed ubuntu on a tablet- not smartphones.

Any ideas?

grahammechanical
December 28th, 2013, 08:53 PM
most of it seems experimental at best, poorly written and very "iffy". (that is- maybe it works....maybe it's not stable/reliable).

All of that is very true. Ubuntu Touch should be thought of as a developer preview. There are four official devices that Ubuntu Touch is being developed and tested on with the developers using the devices themselves.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices

And this is most definitely for developers. Do not expect this to be part of Ubuntu when Ubuntu Touch reachers version 1.5 sometime next year. At the moment Ubuntu Touch is optimised for the phone but not for the tablet. Work on optimising Ubuntu Touch for tablet devices is happening right now. It may be completed by April 2014 when it is expected that Ubuntu Touch will reach version 1.5

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/12/announcing-ubuntu-and-android-dual-boot-developer-preview/

Regards.