What you need: Nexus 7, micro USB cable, Ubuntu Nexus 7 Desktop Installer on your PC, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or later.
First, download Nexus 7 installer on your Ubuntu machine.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7-installer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-nexus7-installer
Now unlock your Nexus 7: Reboot into the Android boot loader. Power down, then hold the volume down button and press the power button. Continue holding these until you see the boot loader UI.Plug in the device to your laptop with your micro-usb cable. The device now displays the boot loader GUI.
Verify it is seen with this command: * $ sudo fastboot devices.
Unlock the bootloader: sudo fastboot oem unlock. Then reboot: sudo fastboot reboot-bootloader. Should see LOCKSTATE UNLOCKED.
Now install Ubuntu 13.04 (developer preview). Search for Nexus from the Dash. Follow on screen instructions. Flashing takes 2 minutes, rebooting takes 10-15 minutes.
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Nick says: In Backtrack. Go to System Tools > EtherApe and have fun!
Jonathan asks: I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles and for many years I have only had access to a few internet service providers with high prices and limited speeds. Sometime speeds are up to 8Mbps download and 1Mbps upload, but I rarely see that. Sometimes my slow internet connection makes it impossible for me to get what I need done. I use linux desktops/servers and an apple laptop on a daily basis and I have read many ways to optimize my internet connection, but many simply say to just run anti-virus. I've looked into projects like squidproxy, but they seem to have little to no effect on performance. How would you make the most of your internet connection and what tools and techniques would you recommend using?
"init 0 says: Thanks for the excellent review of Backbox. I've used the cozy little distro and have to say that it's impressive. I'm currently remixing it with the Cinnamon desktop and it's turning out to be very promising. The main issue that I have with Pentoo is it's long refresh cycle. The last major release was in 2009. It was a great distro then and I can hardly wait to see what the latest iteration will hold.
One distro that you may want to take for a test drive is Matriux. This French distro is a great middle ground between Backtrack and Backbox. It's more suitable than Backtrack as a day-to-day OS and is more robust than Backbox. Still, no matter how far I roam, I always find myself coming home to good old BackTrack. Thanks for all that you and Darren do for the community."
For Christmas my sister received a tablet as a gift which she was unhappy with and I convinced her to return it to get the Nexus 7 instead.
Maybe I can convince her to try out Ubuntu just so that I can play with it on her device.
I’ve been playing with Ubuntu on the new Samsung S3 Google Chromebook and it’s pretty sweet, but lacks some of the features that you’d expect it to be capable of (at this point at least). I’ve had issues getting the Alfa card working on Ubuntu (Chrubuntu) for the Chromebook as well.
Anyways, this was a great episode as always!
Cheers,
-Jordan
Did you ever get the ALFA to work with the nexus 7? Also, you should totally sell hax0rflakes in the hakshop!
Cheers,
Nolan
I’m surprised that Hak5 doesn’t have it’s own subreddit… The Linux Action Show does. Jus’ sayin’.
Could you take a look at Griffin at CES? in the last year they announced the “CarTrip and CleanDrive App”, but I have not heard anything about that since then. Thank you.
You have to check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp_BQXzEOY for dual booting ubuntu on the Nexus 7. It has made my new year, Thank you Hak5 for the tip.
skyuk3000
I’ve been trusting my technolust since the keyboard mod & the rss newspaper. Thank you for providing an awesome show for the community. I have definitely learned alot.
@17:03 in the video when you run dmesg, it looks like at least the top 3 lines reference your alpha. I’m not sure if you were just saying that the o.s. didn’t load a module or that the o.s. didn’t see it all. It’s funny because the camera s right over shoulder and I’m squinting at my sg note 2 trying to make out the characters and then like yelling “Darren it’s right there”.
I hope you can just modprobe it in.
Once again thanks for the show and y’all keep up the good work.
Bahaha, That is too funny, right before I clicked on the video I noticed in all the others Shannon is wearing the same shirt. Then at the start of this video you said, “Where she wears the same shirt week after week” lol. too damn funny, love y’alls work