There are terminal apps you can install, and there may even be emacs you can install without rooting.<br><br>That said, there are several distrobutions of a more standard Linux that you can install if you have root. They basically run as an application in the background, and you can VNC into them for a touch screen linux experience. It's much like using VMware on a PC -- but since the Android kernel is a Linux kernel, the guest Linux installs can share the running kernel.<br>
<br>It behaves to the user like a VMware install, but acts more like a chroot with GUI.<br><br><a href="http://linuxonandroid.org/">http://linuxonandroid.org/</a> for more information.<br><br>To confuse the issue, while you can install Ubuntu that way, Ubuntu for Android is an entirely different beast -- Cannoical is creating a Ubuntu version that will run on android, and is geared towards giving a Linux experience when the device is plugged into peripherals. My impression was it was to be installed by the OEM, and would trigger a Linux desktop to start when plugged into a webtop (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/af6t4cf">http://tinyurl.com/af6t4cf</a> image for the curious) -- but it was my impression that that hardware was dying...<br>
<br><br>Jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com" target="_blank">wdtj@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At least with Android, you already have Linux on your tablet. Android uses Linux as it's base operating system then adds a Java/Native mix of user interface on top of that. The confusion comes in that many stock Android installations prevent or limit your access to the Linux portions. There are Apps in the Google Play store that will get you a Linux console, but it's usually pretty limited in it's privileges.<br>
<br>"Rooting" your tablet/phone allows you to have root access to this Linux. Basically you are replacing the manufactures OS with one that has been built from the open source, and allows you superuser access. <br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Olwe Bottorff <<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com" target="_blank">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a>> <br>
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<div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>I'm confused about having linux on a tablet. I've seen instructions for how to "root" your, say, Nexus 10. What does this do? I'd like to put a linux on a tablet and be able to use Emacs (for org-mode!) and a terminal. Does "rooting" a tablet give me some sort of linux with touch screen capabilities? Or is it just a regular linux on a laptop from that point?</div>
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