[squeak-dev] [OT] Extremely cheap ARM handhelds was Raspberry Pi

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Nov 9 12:35:05 UTC 2012


On 2012-11-09, at 10:19, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:

> Great, thanks Chris. I guess these are the kind of trade sample
> devices that Tim cited on Wednesday:
> 
> http://armdevices.net/2012/11/05/wabook-arm-powered-laptops-71-10-1-1024x600-51-7-800x480/
> http://armdevices.net/2012/10/29/overview-of-the-latestbest-7-tablets-out-of-shenzhen-china/
> http://armdevices.net/members-store/
> 
> For better or worse, it sounds like the trade is plumping for Android
> over the Debian Linux of the Raspberry Pi. Does Android need a
> 'jailbreak' to run Squeak?

Yes, but it's built into Android, you don't have to "hack" it. In system settings you can enable "untrusted sources" (which lets you break out of the walled garden, with many of the security implications of jailbreaking).

- Bert -



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