On 6 November 2013 15:01, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Wookey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > These people support linux on cheap tablets: > > https://pengpod.com/products > > (dual boot with android - linux on the SD, but a lot more open than most > > random hardware you can buy) > > ah that's neal. yeah i'm deeply impressed by neal's entrepreneurial > spirit. the pengpod 700 and the 1000 went down extremely well. he's > now doing a crowdfunding project for the A31-based "uber"-tablet. The 1040 looks nice. It is out of my planned budget, but the 9.7 inch screen (non-widescreen) would mean I get more use out of it s a tablet too. (I really only need a tablet as a reader - for everything else I prefer a keyboard; and for reading, widescreen is quite bad). What I would really like to know is what kind of performance the *GPU* would deliver and how well it's supported under GNU/Linux (as opposed to Android). The advertising describes GNU/Linux for "work". I want it for play :) > i > didn't want to alarm/discourage him, the fact that he's trying _at > all_ when so many others are going "yeah it'd be nice IF..." is just > amazing in itself... _but_... the A31 should instantly ring alarm > bells for anyone not just in the free software world but even in the > business world because it has powervr graphics. So what is wrong with that? Performance? Driver support? > > > And the KDE plasma tablet is about to be announced (so I hear). Not sure > > exactly how long before you can buy one. Probably a couple of months or > so, so > > definitely not 'available today'. > > that'll be me doing the hardware for that. ...and that's the main reason I am using Debian - the people on its mailing lists :) > > anyway anyone who'd like to follow along, it's all here: > http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/ > Might be my fault but I could not find the basics there, as in CPU/GPU used, RAM, OpenGL status... and, of course, how you can attach a keyboard. It does seem you are going for non widescreen which is kinda cool :) -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization
