[HH] Ubuntu on an MK802

[Tom Metro]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-OS-Can-Run-on-Mele-A1000-ARM-PC-265628.shtml

  It appears that Aliexpress is selling a small ARM-based device that
  runs Android 2.3, but can be easily hacked to run the popular Ubuntu
  operating system.

  Mele A1000 is actually sold as a TV box for $70. It is powered by an
  ARM-based Allwinner A10 chip. It features 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 ARM CPU
  with a MALI400MP OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU, HDMI, CVBS, and VGA video output,
  R+L, SPDIF audio output, USB port, SD Card slot, eSATA (external SATA)
  port, and Ethernet port.

  As you can see from the video above, it appears that someone
  (ZeNiTRaM) already tested the device with the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid
  Lynx) operating system, booted straight from the SD card.


This is not all that newsworthy (dates back to April), but there is a
flood of these cheap "TV stick" computers on the market running Android,
and they may hold greater general purpose hacking potential if they were
running a mainstream Linux distribution. So good to be aware of the
possibility.

The video linked in the short post is not instructive. It just shows
that Ubuntu boots up.

The blurb doesn't explicitly mention the MK802 (see list archives), but
I believe it is the equivalent hardware (what's pictured is a physically
much bigger computer).

 -Tom