Quite sometime back, we had written a tutorial which showed you how to run Android OS on your Windows based PC ^[1]. Now Softpedia has reported ^[2] about an Android ^[3] Live CD distro for EEE PCs and other x86 (32-bit) platform. The Android-x86 project, is a project to port the Open source Android OS to work on a x86 platform.

The Android-x86 distro is based on Android 1.6 aka Donut and uses the Linux kernel version 2.6.29. The distro also supports Wi-Fi connections and provides users with a GUI for Ethernet configuration.

Here are some screenshots of the Android-x86 distro running on Sun VirtualBox.

Android-x86 Features

• Kernel 2.6.29, KMS enable
• Wifi support with GUI
• Ethernet configuration GUI
• Better disk installer
• Power Suspend/resume (S3 mode)
• Battery Status
• Software mouse cursor
• Mouse wheel
• Support netbook native resolution
• Audio (ALSA)
• V4l2 Camera support
• External monitor support
• External storage auto mount support
• Support external keyboard
• Proxy settings
• Debug mode with busybox
• Bluetooth

To install and run the Android-x86 OS on your PC, download ^[4] the ISO file (198MB) and follow the instructions in this post ^[1], to run it with Sun VirtualBox. You can also burn the installation to disc and then use it to install the Android OS on your PC.