Aakash is a low cost computing device/tablet for students, the project is initiated and funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. Aakash already runs Android 4.0 with many educational apps developed at IIT Bombay. Please refer to androportal for some of the apps.
You may want to check out our youtube videos.
This is the landing page for the Linux on Aakash documentation. To report any bugs please raise issues.
- Setting up the hardware
- Setting up software tool chain
- Compiling u-boot
- Compiling kernel
- Getting file system ready
- Tablet tweaks
- Known issues(must read)
- FAQs
- TODO
- References
- Click to download Ubuntu-12.10 based custom lxde image. Uncompress and dd it to 8GB sdcard
For wget users
wget -c http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/AakashApps/repo/GNU-Linux-on-Aakash/12.10-Aakash2-Linux-27-08-2013.img.xz
MD5SUM for above GNU/Linux xz image 0ae03ee9daa4918e8e0f04fb7c7d62da
To write(dd) image on an 8GB sdcard, you may use a graphical tool ddMaker-1.0.1.all.deb