Monday, June 18, 2012  Arch Linux on a WM8650 netbook  UPDATE
20th November 2012: Due to recent changes in the Arch Linux boot
process, this tutorial is no longer valid. You can still
download an old pre-built image and install it, as I explained
here. But with this old image, updating the distro (with pacman
-Syu) will most likely throw some errors and maybe even break
the system. Also installing applications without updating the
distro (with pacman -S application_name) will likely fail
because of the not updated dependencies.  If you have searched
the net for a very cheap tablet, maybe you have seen a lot of
 7" chinese ones featuring the WM8650 SoC. This SoC has an ARM9
CPU running at 800 MHz, a DSP, a 2D graphics accelerator and a
lot of peripherals.  I don't like tablets at all, but I found
some cheap chinese netbooks containing pretty much the same
hardware, removing the touchscreen and replacing it with a
keyboard + touchpad. I couldn't resist and bought one of these
netbooks in Aliexpress. It costed m