If I haven't already said it, I find mobile OS's obnoxious. Especially in light of the fact that tablets run on mobile OS's. They are operating systems that keep you from doing anything substantive on them. Sure you can run the allowed apps and games, but what if you want to rebuild them with another OS? Nope. What if you want to tinker with it and mess with system files or other admin activities? Nope.
You can only have freedom on your own device if you root it, which unless you really know what you're doing is dangerous, and it voids your warranty etc. So doing any real development etc on your tablet is out of the question unless you root it. I haven't had the time to learn to do this so I'm stuck with unrooted devices. So I looked around for options for running a linux terminal on an unrooted device. And I found GnuRoot. It is amazing. It runs on unrooted Android devices AND it has apt-get capabilities! So I can run calcurses, VIM (True VIM), and other Linux console apps. I can grep and do other things.
If you're an unrooted nerd and haven't tried it yet, you must.
You can only have freedom on your own device if you root it, which unless you really know what you're doing is dangerous, and it voids your warranty etc. So doing any real development etc on your tablet is out of the question unless you root it. I haven't had the time to learn to do this so I'm stuck with unrooted devices. So I looked around for options for running a linux terminal on an unrooted device. And I found GnuRoot. It is amazing. It runs on unrooted Android devices AND it has apt-get capabilities! So I can run calcurses, VIM (True VIM), and other Linux console apps. I can grep and do other things.
If you're an unrooted nerd and haven't tried it yet, you must.
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