/linux-on-aakash

Documentation for porting GNU/Linux on Aakash

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Aakash is a low cost computing device/tablet for students, the project is initiated and funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. Aakash already runs Android 4.0 with many educational apps developed at IIT Bombay. Please refer to androportal for some of the apps.

This is the landing page for the Linux on Aakash documentation. For any questions and discussions please join us on Aakash forum To report any bugs please raise issues.

List of contents

  1. Setting up the hardware
  2. Setting up software tool chain
  3. Compiling u-boot
  4. Compiling kernel
  5. Getting file system ready
  6. Tablet tweaks
  7. Known issues(must read)
  8. FAQs
  9. TODO
  10. References
  11. Click to download a ready to use ubuntu-12.10 custom lxde image. Untar and dd it carefully to 8GB sdcard