Tablets and Linux

Petter Adsen petter at synth.no
Thu Apr 9 15:19:07 UTC 2015


On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 10:20:07 -0400
Mark Haney <mark.haney at vifprogram.com> wrote:

> Yes, for the most part they do. I have a Nexus 10 and I do that quite
> often.  I don't know about calendar sync, since I use Google mail and
> calendar for everything, so it syncs automatically to those.

OK, thanks :) I'm not very familiar with the Google ecosystem, but it
seems a lot more open than Apple's does, so it should be more suited to
us Linux users. I'll do a little searching online tonight to learn
about syncing with Linux applications.

Petter

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> 
> > I have an iPad, but I've found it is not generally very easy to use
> > with Linux, so I'm considering getting an Android tablet. Do these
> > generally behave as Android phones, so I can mount the file system
> > and transfer files directly?
> >
> > Also, is synchronization of calendars and contacts hassle-free for
> > desktop Ubuntu applications?
> >
> > I'm just assuming that Android plays nicer with Linux than iThings
> > do, but please correct me on this so I don't go from trouble I'm
> > aware of to brand new and shiny problems.
> >
> > Petter
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