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Re:iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.0... by captn3m0 on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:46PM (#25732658)
I would love to install Linux on my old (unsupported)iPad 2
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Re:iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.0... by astrange on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:02PM (#25734345)
It wouldn't be very useful without swap, and the device isn't meant to be used with swap enabled.
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Re:iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.0... by SulfurHexaFluri on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:52PM (#25740012)
Those ipads could be perfectly useful as dumb streaming targets or dashboard displays.
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