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Ubuntu 12.04 Ported To the Allwinner A10 MK802 Mini PC

Posted by timothy on from the submini-seems-appropriate dept.

New submitter beefsack writes "Thanks to the strong ARM support in the Ubuntu repositories, Ubuntu, along with Lubuntu and others have been ported to work on the new MK802 mini PC. Performance is very impressive, especially given that Mali GPU driver support in Linux is still lacking features such as hardware video decoding."

8 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. "We're sorry, but something went wrong." by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup. Someone posted a link to your site on /. without hitting a cache service first.

    Amateur mistake, editor. Make this standard practice, for pity's sake!

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  2. not news by Cyko_01 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian has been releasing for arm for years! Since ubuntu is based on debian of course it would follow that ubuntu can be made to work on arm too

  3. What the mini-PC looks like by k(wi)r(kipedia) · · Score: 4, Informative
    A random search for the actual device yields the following self-explanatory link:

    http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/mk802-new-usb-thumb-drive-sized-android.html

    The link alone should tell you what the device is. Price per unit is supposed to be $74, not quite RasPi class.

    1. Re:What the mini-PC looks like by wed128 · · Score: 2

      Shipping is $14. the device itself is $74

    2. Re:What the mini-PC looks like by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2

      double the hardware of the RasPi, double the price. It is about the same class.

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    3. Re:What the mini-PC looks like by viperidaenz · · Score: 2

      Boo hoo, it's not $35.
      Its got a case (not a bare board).
      Its got 1GB ram (not 256m).
      its got 4GB flash (not nothing).
      Its got wifi (but no ethernet...)
      It's a 1,5GHz A8 CPU (not a 700mhz arm11).

  4. XBMC Possibilities by bornagainpenguin · · Score: 2

    People are already working on getting OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) to work on these, which will make these a wicked entertainment center given that this means XBMC on the cheap. I look forward to seeing these popular up in the houses of every day Joes being put together by their geek friends.

    What I'd like to see is a method of running XBMC as shell and allow Android games to be launched from within the interface. Should provide a library of games that way, especially if it could be made to pair with cellphones as controllers. Seems like everybody has a cellphone these days so it should make having controllers for everyone easier.

    Then of course there are all the emulators....

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  5. Easier Method to Create a Bootable Ubuntu 12.04 SD by BoydWaters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nice article here explains how to roll your own:

    http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/13/hardware-packs-for-allwinner-a10-devices-and-easier-method-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-12-04-sd-card/