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Can Android tablet can boot from a USB port?

I wonder if I can run a Linux distro installed on light Android a USB flash drive on one of these tablets. 1) Is it a good Tablet PC (less than $ 200) you can boot from a USB port? 3) How I can find a small Linux distro that has all the drivers for the tablet? Thank you for responding.

First, Android is Linux. This is a software layer of the Linux kernel customized especially at the top. And customizations in the core and the layer of software sitting on top of it are very important to work on intelligent architecture and specialized. Second, the kernel must be compiled to run on a given architecture. So you have find a version of Linux compiled for an ARM processor. It's not a big problem. Several distributions such as Ubuntu, have ARM cores. But then you must have kernel modules for drivers teams smartphone … is not likely. And it probably needs a specially designed interface, such as KDE or Gnome would really not work on a 4-inch touch screen. All this would also be specially compiled for the kernel. And that's before you start the application software. And when you have all this work … Could Android. And even if you could do would be some way to start from USB, you can not boot from the kernel firmware Smartphone directly, without any kind of bootloader you have on a personal computer. Android to be more Linux-y – which means, as experience is very different Linux-based graphical user interface (assuming you use a) – you can install a terminal emulator, and even the bash shell. If you play with it a little, might be able to install software from the command line Linux. However, even then, would not be terribly useful, given the limited capacity to introduce text on a smartphone.