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A comment on Ask HN: How can we replace iOS on an iPad 2 with Android or any Linux OS?.

Re:Ask HN: How can we replace iOS on an iPad 2 with Android ... by kaladin-jasnah on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:50PM (#29775472)
You may want to look into things like: https://projectsandcastle.org/status. Like the other commenter said, iOS is locked down and I don't think Sandcastle supports iPad (it looks dead now). If you want a Linux tablet, look at the JingPad, or just any old Android tablet.

There is a chance you could go through _lots_ of work to get some _Android_ device to work on raw Linux with the edk2-sdm845 UEFI firmware (https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-sdm845) that chainloads from the Android bootloader (ABL).

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Re:Ask HN: How can we replace iOS on an iPad 2 with Android ... by asddubs on Sunday January 02, 2022 @07:09PM (#29775637)
or a pinetab, although I'm not sure how polished the software is at this point

https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/

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