On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > I might be in the market for a tablet. Mainly, being able to lounge around > with a tablet while working through that backlog of comp-sci theory PDFs is > very tempting. ;-) What's the best for the Linux/GNU/OS fan? WWRMSD? What > would RMS do/buy? I'd like it to run some form of Heaven (Emacs) and be able > to do PDFs. Any other similarities to my Ubuntu 10.04 world would be > welcome. I haven't tried it myself, but apparently it is possible to run Ubuntu on a Nook Color. Probably some others, too. The NC is a very hackable little device. Not insanely powerful, but not bad. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/nook-color-gets-ubuntu/ You may want something more like a convertible laptop, though...I can't imagine Emacs would be pleasant to use on tablet keyboards I've used. - Justin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110511/ab02036b/attachment.html>