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I found this netbook(?) somewhere in old things and just wonder: can linux be installed on it?

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 51 points 4 months ago

Surely its easier to install Linux than android.

I want to know how they put android on it

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I mean, the internals might just be the ones of a tablet or something. With android I'd be guessing its an ARM chip

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Wut. This thing is like a decade old at least. Did we use ARM back then?

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

ARM chips were common in phones, even 10 years ago. But after doing a bit of research, there seems to be an unofficial open source version of android made to run on x86. Might be that this thing is running that. No idea, really

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