Re: Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Harley Laue
On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:36:37 PM Neil Jerram wrote: > "Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)" writes: > > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html > > I hope it will be capable of running mainline kernels and any GNU/Linux > ecosystem software, not just KDE. > > I think Plasma Acti

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Shawn Rutledge
It's just Plasma Active on top of a meego-derived distro, right? http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development You can boot a USB live image on some other touchscreen device to play around; I did that on my s10-3t last night. On 31 January 2012 14:31, Patryk Benderz wrote: > [cut] >> Also,

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-31 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] > Also, there is NO SOURCE CODE available publicly (maybe with the > exception of one github repository which seems to have at least some > code) which means that all companies currently selling this device are > violating the GPL. If you are sure above is true, it might be worth notifying [1

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Neil Jerram
"Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)" writes: > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html I hope it will be capable of running mainline kernels and any GNU/Linux ecosystem software, not just KDE. I think Plasma Active looks pretty nice and interesting, and look forward to being able to

Re: Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Harley Laue
On Monday, January 30, 2012 09:18:09 PM Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Am 30.01.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Patryk Benderz: > > [cut] > > > >> This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. > > > > It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. > > Most likely it is

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread shamsul hassan
Have a look at this site .. http://www.merimobiles.com/MID_V7_Android_2_2_VIA_VM8650_800Mhz_p/meri0619.htm They have many such variants of Android .. Minimum one is just $72 and even though if you get it shipped with the best possible manner .i.e EMS Express 6-8 Days .. the total will be 72 + 22 =

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
> >> Anyway - in my opinion so far this is a lot of fuzz about hardly anything. > > It'll be one of very few tablets that run linux without needing an > anti-vendor > port. That's a good thing in my book, even if it's not ideal. It was an intersting experience when we did the Letux 400 3 years

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Am 30.01.2012 um 15:42 schrieb Patryk Benderz: > [cut] >> This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. > It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. Most likely it is 200 EUR w/o taxes, WEEE and many other duties like warranties etc. And @ 1 Mio units :) With

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 18:52:19 Thomas Gstädtner wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: > >> [cut] > >> > >> > This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. > >> > >> It is written 200 EURO, not

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: >> [cut] >> >> > This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. >> >> It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. > > No mention of tax either. It's certainl

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: > [cut] > > > This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. > > It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. No mention of tax either. It's certainly interesting, especially in light of the Lima driver pro

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Harley Laue
On 01/30/2012 06:41 AM, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html This look very interesting. Can't wait to get my hands on one. It does indeed look interesting, but it's not $200, it's EUR200 (at current exchange rates puts that at around 26

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] > This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. -- Patryk "LeadMan" Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments