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100% free? What about drivers?100% free? What about drivers?Posted Aug 24, 2011 2:06 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet? 100% free is a nice dream, but for now it's just a dream. It does not look like tablet without hardware acceleration will attract anyone (besides GNOME3 and KDE4 don't really like to work without hardware acceleration), but AFAICS there are exactly zero offers with open-source 3D drivers in tablet space.
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100% free? What about drivers? Posted Aug 24, 2011 8:12 UTC (Wed) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
The ExoPC is one example that we currently run Plasma Active on, with fully accelerated video drivers.
100% free? What about drivers? Posted Aug 24, 2011 10:02 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
In contrast to GNOME 3, KDE 4 actually does work without hardware acceleration. I often turn it off when latest git Mesa or graphics drivers have problems and all I lose is just some effects like shadows and transparency. But the desktop still works just as well.
100% free? What about drivers? Posted Aug 24, 2011 17:23 UTC (Wed) by mgraesslin (subscriber, #78959) [Link]
On Plasma Active we actually require hardware acceleration (OpenGL ES 2.0 to be precise).
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