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An update on the KDE-powered Vivaldi tabletAaron Seigo posted an update on the Vivaldi tablet project, with good news on the long search for a hardware provider that will comply with the GPL, despite several setbacks. "I dug more and the combination of seeing that the tablet space is still very much open (with all sorts of speculation about Android's position in it, Apple's ability to keep a death grip on the space, the rise of Amazons and others, etc..) and the reaffirmation that if we don't make open devices who will, I feel it is more important than ever to keep going." Pau Garcia i Quiles has a different take on the news, asking why KDE needs to base the product on an alternative Linux stack at all — when it could be adapted to run directly on Android instead. (Log in to post comments)
An update on the KDE-powered Vivaldi tablet Posted Sep 24, 2012 11:28 UTC (Mon) by ssam (subscriber, #46587) [Link]
the value in the vivaldi project is not the plasma active software, its the FOSS friendly hardware. Once you have that you can experiment with whatever software stack you like.
There are various reasons to want a traditional linux based stack. It means you can run any of the 1000s of existing linux programs. (For example I used to run gnumeric on a nokia 770 tablet running maemo (the predecessor of mer)).
It is important though to ship new hardware with some nice software. openmoko got some bad press for stability and usefulness of their software, when the neo and freerunner came out.
An update on the KDE-powered Vivaldi tablet Posted Sep 24, 2012 18:22 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Yeah, sure. Vivaldi has problems finding a single supplier for a small shipment of devices. Do you think they'll even make a dent in the world of crappy-source Chinese tablets?
And as for Vivaldi being useful as a tablet, I think even its developers understand that it's not going to be useful.
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