[craftyguy]

> Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code.

Well, that makes this a no-go for me. Thanks for the info, seriously!

> No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS

Um, if you run windows 10 and install drivers from them, then you're running binary crap. (not to mention windows 10 is binary crap, but I digress)

[mmjaa]

Disregard the claim! I have a GPD Pocket and run Ubuntu on it, and it is freakin' awesome. Get the proper image - not the braindead one - from here:

https://apt.nexus511.net

Its a mighty fine device, my favourite Linux machine ever .. and all of the issues discussed are no longer an issue thanks to the GPD Pocket/Ubuntu community.

(Also see http://reddit.com/r/gpdpocket/ for more up to date news on this delightful machine..)

[sowbug]

Thanks, I'll give it a look. Last time I looked at the subreddit, there were various people working on Ubuntu respins, but none of the projects looked like a frontrunner yet for a low-maintenance build.

[mmjaa]

nexus511's dist build is wonderful - no worries whatsoever!

[monocasa]

There's this github project that shows you the changes made, and allows you to trivially create Ubuntu and Mint isos.

https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin

[sowbug]

Cool, thanks. I got the impression when I was first looking for distros that this project did create an initial ISO from source, but after that you couldn't apt upgrade without things getting weird. Maybe I am misremembering or maybe it's improved since then.

[monocasa]

Yeah, it's definitely gotten better over the past few months.

[sowbug]

> Um

Yes, that's what I meant by "rooted" in the post you replied to.