TURNING THE SAMSUNG GALAXY note 10.1 into A appropriate LINUX BOX

Over on the xda designers forum, [exception13] shows us the work he’s put into geting Debian running on his Samsung Galaxy note 10.1, enabling him to double boot Android as well as Linux on a single device.

The job is still in a relatively early state, however so far [exception13] has most of the goodies needed for a decent Linux experience running already. There’s WiFi, bluetooth, sound, usb-otg as well as touchscreen support, in addition to support for the Note’s S Pen, the Wacom digitizer that basically turns the Galaxy note 10.1 into an Intuos touch pad.

There’s still a great deal of work work to be done, including getting the camera up as well as running, in addition to enabling the GPS receiver. Still, it’s a extremely great job that puts the power of a appropriate desktop interface into a tablet with sufficient horsepower to get something useful done.

If you’d like to get this running on your Galaxy Note, [exception13] has a download avaiable over on Google Code. There’s likewise a video [exception13] put together demoing all the great stuff his note can do, you can inspect that out after the break.