Aakash is a low cost computing device/tablet for students, the project is initiated and funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. It comes pre-installed with Android 4.0 bundled 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.

List of contents

1. Setting up the hardware
2. Setting up software tool chain
3. Compiling u-boot
4. Compiling kernel
5. Getting file system ready
6. Tablet tweaks
7. Known issues(must read)
8. FAQs
9. TODO
10. References
11. Click to download custom lxde image based on Ubuntu-12.10. Uncompress and dd it to 8GB sdcard

MD5SUM for above GNU/Linux tar.bz2 image bb40bef45d8ff4d01fbed65fb6f0f5b7

To write(dd) image on an 8GB sdcard, you may use a graphical tool ddMaker-1.0.1.all.deb