It appears that Aliexpress is selling a small ARM-based device that runs Android 2.3, but can be easily hacked to run the popular Ubuntu operating system.

Mele A1000 is actually sold as a TV box for $70. It is powered by an ARM-based Allwinner A10 chip. It features 1.2 GHz Cortex A8 ARM CPU with a MALI400MP OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU, HDMI, CVBS, and VGA video ouput, R+L, SPDIF audio output, USB port, SD Card slot, eSATA (external SATA) port, and Ethernet port.

As you can see from the video above, it appears that someone (ZeNiTRaM) already tested the device with the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, booted straight from the SD card.

Barry Kauler, the father of the Puppy Linux distribution, made a request on the arm-netbook mailinglist asking for the SD card image of the Ubuntu OS demoed in the video above.

For those interested to test Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on the Mele A1000 device, here's the 2 GB image of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

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