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Impressive work on the rooting procedure, but...

>For the TL;DR crowd: I wanted to run a Debian chroot in my tablet;

I'm sad that there aren't more people looking to run a mainline kernel + Linux distro on their tablets. It's definitely possible but a lot more difficult.

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Not quite the same, but this guy describes a way to install Debian as the main OS (but using the kernel from the original firmware) and then running the Android system as a chroot within Debian:

http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian

That is fantastic, thank you. It'd be interesting to see something like MaruOS [1] implemented that way.

[1] maruos.com

Thank you so much! Your link and this article are just what I needed to take back control of my sony compact camera. I will try it soon now.

Please blog and document the process. I'd love to read it.

With pleasure but only if it's a success.. I want to be very careful so it may takes time.

There is work in progress for sony camera on android (mine is too old): http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/sony-hack/hack-development

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