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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by kazinator on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:52PM (#20033698)
No office suite: https://products.office.com/en-us/mobile/office-mobile-apps-...

Limited driver support? Android devices are typically highly integrated: they use custom SoC's (that you've never heard of) with drivers developed specifically for those SoC's and their blocks.

(Oh, your amazingly rare phone has a PCI slot, and your graphics card is not supported, bummer!)

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by panpanna on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:08AM (#20037516)
Surprisingly, Hisilicon (Huaweis chip company) tries to use as many standard components as possible.

Getting a hisilicon soc up and running is a joy compared to working on a qcom or Samsung soc. Upstream Linux often works out of the box.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by officeplant on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:00PM (#20041763)
Do you know of any SBC's running Hisilicon SOCs? I need more ARM variants to pile on my SBC tinkering hobby.
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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by panpanna on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:32PM (#20044374)
Check out 96boards
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