07-28-2021, 09:08 PM
(07-28-2021, 06:47 AM)tophneal Wrote: I'm a little surprised. I've been following development on the OS for this, and initially I thought they said the tablet would be x86, thus delaying an aarch64 port. I know they're aware that many PineTab users are interested in running/trying the OS on the Tab. i wonder if this change in hardware will put that closer to a reality now.
My impression was that it is already running on x86 and now they want to test on ARM devices. I'm not entirely sure how difficult it really is to port a window manager based on Ubuntu over, it should be relatively easy?
(07-28-2021, 12:57 PM)moonwalkers Wrote: I've been burned by far less ambitious Linux device projects. So I'm not going to back it until a) the backers start receiving devices and post their own reviews (though if those reviews are all thoroughly positive I'll remain skeptical)
Yeah, I've seen a lot of hype around a product very few people have seen yet. I checked out some of the other reviews on the YT channel and they generally seem to be in good spirit, so I'm willing to give the benefit of doubt about this guys integrity: https://www.youtube.com/c/TechHutHD/videos The poor dude has been grifting hard for just 50k subscribers.
(07-28-2021, 12:57 PM)moonwalkers Wrote: and b) I hear the news that the device is supported by the mainline kernel, so I can pick and chose who gets my data instead of being stuck with Chinese communist spyware. That is assuming it uses something like a typical u-boot that I can replace myself, and not some permanent firmware that can take over in hypervisor mode.
I obviously want to avoid politics, but a closed-source market place is for sure a problem. The number of apps they have ported to their OS is also pretty low, so I hope in any case it's possible to pull normal packages from the Ubuntu repositories.