Here's a tablet strategy for you: Android 4.0.1 optimized for AMD Brazos APU

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  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Great stuff. Outside of the Android part of it (which is pretty awesome), it seems like AMD is poised to take the tablet market by storm. By giving ARM real competition in the Android space, and providing an x86 compatible path for Windows8 tablets, they're ready to do something really huge.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    You all know I'm a little slow...

    So, can I install Android on my new AMD APU HTPC and say FU to Windows?

    Guess that depends on XBMC android support?

    No?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    I imagine Android is going to need more work and better apps for the HTPC use case, but eventually, yes.

    You can run XBMC on Linux now, though, so you can already say FU to Windows.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Gargoyle wrote:
    I imagine Android is going to need more work and better apps for the HTPC use case, but eventually, yes.

    You can run XBMC on Linux now, though, so you can already say FU to Windows.

    Windows 7 just works though. Linux is a headache I don't want for an HTPC
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Meh, once you get it working (who knows, it might "just work"), you'll spend all your time in the XBMC environment, probably never to see the underlying shell again.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    Gargoyle wrote:
    Meh, once you get it working (who knows, it might "just work"), you'll spend all your time in the XBMC environment, probably never to see the underlying shell again.

    Well, Gnome 2.32 now has GStreamer ( I forgot the newest version, beat me over the head with several wet noodles someone ) also. So, there are ways and ways in Linux. I do not have a 1080p display device in the house yet, so do not stream.

    John.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2011
    fatcat wrote:
    Windows 7 just works though. Linux is a headache I don't want for an HTPC

    Then you definitely wouldn't want Android yet:
    What NOT work (yet):
    * Sound
    * Camera
    * Ethernet
    * Hardware acceleration for Intel platform
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    I did a little work on an Android-x86 conversion for an older x86 point-of-sale machine for home use and I couldn't get Android-x86 to compile. They maintain binary images for a few specific tablets (read: custom kernels for each) but it's a bad sign when your vanilla distribution doesn't compile for people that have your toolchain.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    fatcat wrote:
    Windows 7 just works though. Linux is a headache I don't want for an HTPC

    By and large, Linux "just works" these days too. The days of having to tinker with things to get Linux working are over unless you're running bleeding edge or very esoteric hardware. Just grab a Linux Mint (or another Ubuntu variant) live image, boot it up, if everything works in the live image then it will work once you install it. The only thing that you shouldn't expect to be there OOTB is 3rd party Nvidia/Radeon drivers, but those are stupid simple to install these days especially in Ubuntu distros (there's a popup, you just click yes type password and let it do it's thing).

    With my HTPC, literally all I had to do was install Ubuntu, install the Radeon drivers (completely automated), install XBMC (one command on the command line or a few clicks in the Ubuntu Software Center) and go. It was even simpler than installing Windows. Then the tinkerer in me took over and I added a couple of 3rd party software repos (a couple well documented command line commands) so I could run the bleeding edge Radeon drivers and the latest bleeding edge XBMC, running an update then pulled in the necessary software and updated everything. Even that was dead simple to do though. The only problem I have with my HTPC is the fact that my motherboard is slowly dying.

    I'm not saying you should dump Windows for Linux. Use whatever the hell you want. If you're going to publicly knock Linux though, at least find a reason that's still applicable.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    It is a big headache to get 5.1 through hdmi working on linux (at least in combination with boxee)...a big issue for HTPCs.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    Dunno anything about that, HDMI audio works fine for me, but I don't have 5.1 set up.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    Yeah 2.0 works fine
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