[fedora-arm] Fedora on Chinese 7" LCD netbooks running Android 4.4 Kitkat w 1GB RAM?

[Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have ordered a Chinese, Android based "netbook".

It's more like a toy and I know what I'm getting into, I just wanted to have something very lightweight with full qwerty keyboard that I can hook up in the event of power failure or main systems failure (I have recently experienced a mainboard failure at my desktop and days later the HDD on my x86 laptop failing, and it wasn't nice having only my Phone as connectivity to the world),

This toy ARM netbook will hopefully allow me to, in such an event, still get to the Net and get stuff "done". By "stuff" I'm thinking of checking my email and buy stuff online, plus check youtube videos. That's it. I think this will fit the bill, using the included Android 4.4 OS. I'm thinking of hooking it up with a 3G modem and installing Opera Mini to it, plus moving apps to its internal MicroSD slot.

Having said that, what are the chances of getting Fedora Linux ARM booting on one of these, I'm guessing from a USB Flash drive?.

CPU is A9 1.5Ghz dual-core.Memory is 1GB. Internal Flash storage is 16GB.
Screen is cr*p by PC standards, 7", and restricted to 800x480, Yet specs says over the HDMI output it can handle Netflix playback in "Full HD" -IBIWISI-.

It includes HDMI output, 3x USB 2.0 ports, Wifi and one 10/100 Ethernet port on the back.
 

The closest I've been able to find in international sites  (I'm buying this from a local vendor down here) is this:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Business-gift-7-laptop-android-4-0-mini-laptop-WIFI-Netbook-RJ45-Ethernet-Free-shipping/1180798689.html?spm=2114.01020208.8.4.zY3nDs

... but this one has double the RAM and internal storage, to be able to run Android 4.4

So, any hope I could unlock its bootloader and get it booting Fedora ARM (XFCE?) from one of its USB ports?

I understand that due to lack of standarized BIOS booting off USB etc is not as easy as in the PC world...

FC

PS: The only interesting resource I was able to find was this about running Debian ARM over chroot atop Android, but I'd prefer a real "dual-boot" solution if possible.
https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid

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