Allwinner manufactures ARM-based chips used in tablets, TV boxes, and other low-power devices. While most of those products ship with Google Android software, developers have been porting Ubuntu and other Linux-based operating systems to run on devices with Allwinner chips for years, and the chip maker has been providing some source code and documentation to […]
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PengPod’s Linux-friendly tablets now shipping (to mixed reviews)
PengPod is now shipping its first tablets to customers. These are 7 and 10 inch tablets that can run both Google Android and Linux. When you first turn on a PengPod 700 or PengPod 1000 tablet, it will boot into Google Android 4.0, but there’s also an 8GB microSD card in the box which has […]
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CyanogenMod 9 won’t include the Linaro Toolkit… yet
Recently the folks at Linaro have been showing off a build of Google Android which runs much faster than the latest official versions from the Android Open Source Project thanks to toolchain optimizations and the use of GCC 4.7. We’ve already started to see custom ROM builders incorporate the Linaro toolchain into custom versions of […]
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gedeROM Android 4.0 brings Linaro speed bump to Kindle Fire
The developers at Linaro have been showing off some code optimizations that allow Google Android 4.0 to run up to 100 percent faster under some conditions. It’s not clear if or when these tweaks will end up in the official version of Android that Google ships to phone and tablet makers — but the changes […]
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Android is about to get a lot faster thanks to Linaro
The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP […]
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Linaro and Samsung offer Origen development board for Samsung mobile chips
Samsung introduced its Exynos 4210 dual core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 chip a few months ago, but so far I’ve only heard about a single tablet which will actually use the new chips. Now it looks like Samsung is hoping to make the platform a bit easier to work with. The company has teamed up […]
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ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung and others launch Linaro to push Linux for ARM-based devices
1 Comment on ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung and others launch Linaro to push Linux for ARM-based devicesA number of technology companies working with ARM-based processors have joined together to create a new non-profit organization called Linaro. What does Linaro do? Basically, the goal of the group is to develop and distribute technology that will make it easier for device makers to put Linux on ARM-based products including phones, netbooks, tablets and […]