gentoo on Atom tablet

Tzuriel · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 259

I have a Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet which has an Intel dual core Intel Atom (Moorefield). The shipped OS is terrible and my needs are few so I'd like to ask for some guidance on what it would take to get Gentoo installed and running. My main need is to take notes (editor w/ text file will do) and browse the web.

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:07 am Post subject:

I have a Bay Trail tablet, and Linux has been basically unusable on it. The peripherals on the tablet were put on Android and/or ARM forks and never backported into mainline. So basically my tablet's screen, bluetooth, wifi, power indication, all do not work perfectly. Touchscreen support in Linux is terrible.

I did not try Android. I despise Android.

I tried Windows 8 on it (the default OS) and found it to work pretty well. HD video works well on the slow CPU. Sigh. I'll just use it for now. It was free beer software (since it has a small screen), alas I want real FOSS.
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