I’m searching for a mobile device to program on. Up to now the natural choice would have been a laptop but with the new Tegra 3 cpus due next month and even windows 8 coming to arm next year I considered a shift of perspective. As a programmer I got lots of useful and important pdf files, courses for the university come as pdfs and ebooks about computer languages are almost more common than paperbacks. Certainly it would be more comfortable to read these on a tablet and with linux support on arm it might even be possible to code on a tablet. Tegra 3 certainly offers enough performance so there are my questions
- Has anyone ever used Linux on ARM and can tell me about potential
problems? - What about driver support? I’ve heard that nvidia releases
official tegra drivers for arm but what about wlan etc. Any
experiences / information?
and most important
- Do development tools work on ARM? I’m thinking about eclipse,
netbeans,… I know that gcc and java-vm ports exist but couldn’t get
any precise information
Last but most important- No offence meant but frankly: I’ve learned that everything that involves Linux is bound to be difficult. Most if not all things on linux have to be configured and tested for hours on end – I admit that I’m no linux guru.
I won’t mind some set-up difficulties and can cope with a little tweaking and a few workarounds but all in all I’m looking for a productive system.
Do you think a tablet running linux can be productive and stable enough to make programming enjoyable ?
Linux is Linux.
May want to get a separate keyboard and mouse for your own sanity while developing though.