Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC

Re:Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC by dhruvmittal on Thursday January 17, 2013 @09:46AM (#5072867)

Honestly, I think the only thing keeping me from using Android as more of a desktop replacement is the lack of solid local compilers. That, and a handful of more specialized desktop applications like MatLab (which run just as well on my lab computers- I probably don't need to carry them around), are the only reasons I can't just make the jump.

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Re:Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC by mindstab on Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:29AM (#5073133)

Me as well, at least for a netbook replacement.

Though to some extent possibly putting a debian chroot onto an SD card might almost be enough. There are a few different attempts to start putting dev environments onto android (and then there's also the ipad as a devtool "buy a linode and ssh to it" method...)

but yeah, sadly even on some devices that means cracking/rooting them just to be able to properly chroot, but with that you'd at least have all the compilers you want and vim and/or emacs :P

Then we could start looking at bootstrapping more tools I suppose

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Re:Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC by chris_mahan on Thursday January 17, 2013 @04:03PM (#5075189)

You can ssh into a raspberrypi running debian on your local network, or even over unencrypted wifi.

Use ConnectBot (ssh) and hacker's keyboard, and you're all set.

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