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jonathan_s · 07-08-2011, 04:52 AM

Wow, thank you. I'm so pleased to see people are still hacking the DR800. I just discovered DR800+, installed it and am pleased so far with the results.

Some exploratory questions, if I may.

1. What is the possibility of running ordinary Linux applications on the DR800. Starting with say xterm, to poke around inside while it is running.
2. Then what about easy-debian inside the DR800?
3. Then hacking the hardware to do USB hosting, so can plug in a USB keyboard, mouse, etc.
4. And (where I really want to be), running OpenOffice. I've run in on an Freerunner Neo, which I believe has about the same amount of computing power, and it was quite usable, if a little slow.

Or am I just being silly?

Thanks again, Jonathan

07-08-2011, 04:52 AM	#189
jonathan_s Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: none	Wow, thank you. I'm so pleased to see people are still hacking the DR800. I just discovered DR800+, installed it and am pleased so far with the results. Some exploratory questions, if I may. 1. What is the possibility of running ordinary Linux applications on the DR800. Starting with say xterm, to poke around inside while it is running. 2. Then what about easy-debian inside the DR800? 3. Then hacking the hardware to do USB hosting, so can plug in a USB keyboard, mouse, etc. 4. And (where I really want to be), running OpenOffice. I've run in on an Freerunner Neo, which I believe has about the same amount of computing power, and it was quite usable, if a little slow. Or am I just being silly? Thanks again, Jonathan