On 11/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:36:41 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am debating getting a netbook to replace my ee701 as a sometime
machine or a tablet. There are a number of options but basically it
comes down to what this second device is for.
What is the progress of Fedora on 'cheap' tablets, as I would like this
effort to come in under $100? I did see one interesting page on Fedora
on a tablet:
https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2012/07/05/the-chinese-g101-tablet-and-fedora-17-part-1/
I can't find a price for this, though I could probably get one of my
colleagues from Heuwei or China Mobile to bring one to the next IEEE
meeting. Are there affordable atom based tablets? Seems not. Sigh.
So the other approach is to just get an Android Tablet referbed and use
it for its limited use, to get familiar with tablets already.
But it sure would be interesting to have a working, cheap, Fedora tablet!
I have an Oaktrail based Q550 x86 tablet and while it will run Fedora I
wouldn't bother. The keyboardless handling on Fedora is a shambles (eg
the screenlock and gdm out of the box don't provide working keyboard) and
the device is basically unusable with Fedora as a result.
Fedora 17? The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat
better than you report.
Ubuntu on the other hand appears to have gotten most of this working
quite usably as well as having tools/support for a small number of
Android type devices. However its still pretty sluggish IMHO at this point
but it does work.
I might as well stay with Android. I actually have to start working
with it for my day job. I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my
research is leading me to working on some product development. Sigh. I
LIKE research; kind of like Medcalf back at Xerox....
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