TookItAway

With the release of the SDE (Special Developer Edition) firmware for the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, the door is open for the possibility to boot alternative operating systems.

This should allow, with varying degrees of modification, any OS that supports the TI OMAP3 platform to boot on the device. As an example, Archos includes Ångström, an embedded Linux distribution built on top of the OpenEmbedded framework.

Already, there is an effort to get a AOSP (Android Open Source Project) build booting on the device, see the development diary or keep up to date with that and more on the ArchosFans forum.