Because my institution has elected to (mostly) go "paperless", I have a 
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) under some recent Android 
environment, ARM CPU platform.  After several days of using the unit as 
an end-user portable computer (e.g., for PDF editing, office suite, 
email, web browser, video conference as needed, and 802.11 connectivity, 
etc., but not for coding or typical scientific applications), I am 
considering attempting to switch it it to Linux.  Evidently, there is 
both an Ubuntu and Arch distribution for some versions of the ARM 
platform -- any versions of EL for this platform?  Anyone using Linux on 
this platform?

I do have the USB adapter for Samsung and can mount, read, write, and 
unmount a typical USB flash drive that has a MS Windows format file 
system, and thus am able to transfer files from a linux environment.  I 
have not yet tested this adapter with an external USB CD/DVD unit and 
standard ISO 9660 media.

If not, and there are any members of this list who also use this sort of 
platform under Android, off list correspondence and recommendations 
would be appreciated (e.g., how to get bash working, how to get non-GUI 
file and directory manipulation commands, etc.).  Typical amateur 
end-user material that I have seen on some of the Android lists (e.g., 
the use as an entertainment device) is of less use to me.  Several of my 
students have discussed "rooting" Android to get around the limitations 
imposed by the environment and getting closer to the underlying linux 
core (that is missing most of the support programs and APIs that make 
functional a regular linux distribution), but I need to more fully 
understand the consequences for this approach before proceeding (as well 
as getting detailed how-to instructions).

Thanks for any information.

Yasha Karant