Does anybody know if I can run linux on archos av 500? or if any other
OS?

On 1 Feb 2006 16:44:34 -0800, khedara@gmail.com wrote:

>Does anybody know if I can run linux on archos av 500? or if any other
>OS?

No idea, but why would you want to? Its OS is firmware-based, as are
its codecs, but why mess around with a perfectly adequate piece of kit
that does very nicely what it's designed to do?

Paul (who has an av700 and isn't messing with it)

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:08:38 +0000, Paul Harper 
wrote:

>On 1 Feb 2006 16:44:34 -0800, khedara@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know if I can run linux on archos av 500? or if any other
>>OS?
>
>No idea, but why would you want to? Its OS is firmware-based, as are
>its codecs, but why mess around with a perfectly adequate piece of kit
>that does very nicely what it's designed to do?

Someone went to the effort of getting Linux to run on iPods, so the
feeling is probably "because it's there"! I've not seen any Linux kit
for Archos, it would tend to lack input facilities to do anything with
it. The iPod port used the wheel for all sorts of input.

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:19:48 +0000, Colum Mylod
<cmylod@despammed.comREMOVE> wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:08:38 +0000, Paul Harper 
>wrote:
>
>>On 1 Feb 2006 16:44:34 -0800, khedara@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Does anybody know if I can run linux on archos av 500? or if any other
>>>OS?
>>
>>No idea, but why would you want to? Its OS is firmware-based, as are
>>its codecs, but why mess around with a perfectly adequate piece of kit
>>that does very nicely what it's designed to do?
>
>Someone went to the effort of getting Linux to run on iPods, so the
>feeling is probably "because it's there"! I've not seen any Linux kit
>for Archos, it would tend to lack input facilities to do anything with
>it. The iPod port used the wheel for all sorts of input.

By the same token, you could stick a nail through it, hang it on the
wall and call it "art", but it'd be just as pointless!

Paul.

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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:01:33 +0000, Paul Harper 
wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:19:48 +0000, Colum Mylod
><cmylod@despammed.comREMOVE> wrote:

>>Someone went to the effort of getting Linux to run on iPods, so the
>>feeling is probably "because it's there"! I've not seen any Linux kit
>>for Archos, it would tend to lack input facilities to do anything with
>>it. The iPod port used the wheel for all sorts of input.
>
>By the same token, you could stick a nail through it, hang it on the
>wall and call it "art", but it'd be just as pointless!

Now don't be giving ugly but rich artist(e)s more ideas, they're bad
enough with crap on beds etc!  Only fire can fight such nonsense (as
when that east London warehouse burned down to pearls of laughter from
the sensible masses).


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