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Aakash <http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/aakash2/index.jsp> is a low cost
computing device/tablet for students, the project is initiated and
funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. It comes pre-installed with Android 4.0 bundled with
many educational apps developed at IIT Bombay. Please refer to androportal <http://github.com/androportal> for some of the apps.
You may want to check out our youtube videos <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgNlwaUyn2morz05AJCzScLTQparFJVT>_.
This is the landing page for the Linux on Aakash documentation.
To report any bugs please raise issues <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/issues>_.
Setting up the hardware <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/setting_up_the_hardware.rst>_Setting up software tool chain <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/setting_up_software_toolchain.rst>_Compiling u-boot <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/compiling_uboot.rst>_Compiling kernel <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/compiling_kernel.rst>_Getting file system ready <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/getting_file_system_ready.rst>_Tablet tweaks <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/tablet_tweaks.rst>_Known issues(must read) <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/known_issues.rst>_FAQs <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/faqs.rst>_TODO <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/todo.rst>_References <https://github.com/androportal/linux-on-aakash/blob/master/references.rst>_Click to download custom lxde image based on Ubuntu-12.10. Uncompress and dd it to 8GB sdcard <http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/AakashApps/repo/GNU-Linux-on-Aakash/aakash_linux_with_all_touchscreens.img.tar.bz2>_MD5SUM for above GNU/Linux tar.bz2 image bb40bef45d8ff4d01fbed65fb6f0f5b7
To write(dd) image on an 8GB sdcard, you may use a graphical tool ddMaker-1.0.1.all.deb <http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/AakashApps/repo/GNU-Linux-on-Aakash/ddmaker-1.0.1.all.deb>_