And maybe you shoud talk to Aaron Seigo. He wants to develop a open source tablet with Plasma Active.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/reveal.html I like this form factor and for most of my stuff it is big enough. Markus Am 28.01.2012 23:10, schrieb Curious Legends: > I have hesitations about using the asus transformer prime as our development > device. The main one is that it uses the kal-el tegra 3 chipset. While it's > quad-core clocked at 1ghz, the gpu uses proprietary drivers from Nvidia. > While I don't mind using proprietary drivers for gpu acceleration, (after > all, texas instruments omap4 platform uses proprietary drivers) the linux > support, other than android, with the tegra chipsets is abominable. While > they have had some offerings consistently, they have usually been built for a > kernel, and version, several steps behind the Ubuntu project. > > To my knowledge, the asus transformer STILL doesn't have hardware > acceleration, let alone the transformer prime. Also, I would check 2 other > things with the prime: > > 1. Has Ubuntu been ported to it yet? > 2. Has asus unlocked the bootloader? > > I think our best bet is to use an omap4 device, which Ubuntu has at least > nominally started supporting with images for the pandaboard dev kit. Hardware > acceleration also works. Looking ahead late this year, TI has also started > working on omap5 chipsets... these are quadcore clocked at 1.6ghz, with up to > 8gb of ram. > > Another option to look at for now, instead of the asus transformers, are the > archos gen9 tablets. They are based on omap4, and there have been plans to > release versions with thin 250 gb hard drives early this year. Also, archos > has made a point in the past of providing easily installable amstrong linux > images for their android tablets... meaning we should be able to use this to > hack the bootloader, and put a Ubuntu arm image on instead. Also, if there > was a device with a separate hard drive, we should be able to remove it and > repartition it easily without special software, etc. > > Keen to hear everyone's thoughts, but I would strongly caution AGAINST using > a tegra device like the transformer for a dev device. > > Mitchell > > Nicholas Shatokhin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Very good choice :) Please, don't forget that in summer will be modified >> Prime with bigger screen resolution (but I don't think that it's problem >> :) ) >> >> But the problem of new tablet OS in small count of applications. So, I >> hope Canonical will add us possibility to deploy ARM tablet apps into >> Ubuntu Application Center as soon as possible. And recommendations of UI >> design (likes Apples with iPad. Don't repeat the fate of Android Market). >> >> I think the Qt and QML is a good framework for apps' developing (tablets >> have not very big memory and not so fast processors, so we need use more >> productive technologies than Python or Java). >> >> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:45:39 +0200 було написано Randall Ross >> <[email protected]>: >> >>> Thanks all for the suggestions/links. >>> >>> After reading all the material and surveying the tablet space, I think >>> the most promising tablet device for our 'prototype' is this one: >>> http://eee.asus.com/en/eeepad/transformer-prime/specification/ >>> >>> Why? >>> - It's light >>> - It's new >>> - It unifies tablets and netbooks, something that everyone else misses >>> >>> Is anyone working to get this "Ubuntu-Friendly"? Is this a target device >>> for Canonical's OEM team? If not, it needs to be, quickly ;) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Randall >>> >>> >> >> -- >> За використання революційного клієнта електронної пошти Opera: >> http://www.opera.com/mail/ >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
