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#41
Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
This is probably why it has the Mali 400 GPU:
An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver
Announcing The Lima Open-Source GPU Driver

So this thing really has the potential to be FULLY open source, without a closed GPU driver - which is major blocker in most other devices.
nobody complains about mali gpu, my problem is that it underperformes in this soc
 
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#42
Originally Posted by GrimyHR View Post
just because i want a open source gnu/linux powered device, doesnt mean i will settle for sub par hardware for a steep price(when compared to what i'm getting for it...)
I think you're just not in the target group. - Most people who'll buy this pioneer device will buy it for the open GNU/Linux stack and will hardly look into the hardware details as long as the browser won't choke when rendering popular websites. - For all I read about the C71, the hardware isn't exciting but decent enough.
 

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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
I think you're just not in the target group. - Most people who'll buy this pioneer device will buy it for the open GNU/Linux stack and will hardly look into the hardware details as long as the browser won't choke when rendering popular websites. - For all I read about the C71, the hardware isn't exciting but decent enough.
lol, pioneer my ***...i use gnu/linux on all my devices and im a gnu/linux fanboy, but im not going to justify their poor choice and praise just because its linux, my criticism is completly valid until i'm proven wrong
dont get me wrong, i would adore a device similar to this one, but made with better choice of hardware for the same price and with gnu/linux as OS, this one just fails by my opinion unles the problem is in the android drivers and will be fixed in this(which i dont believe is the case)
if the problem is in the drivers, ill just buy a 125$ variant of this tablet and flash the OS from this 200€ variant, maybe donate them 20$ if possible afterwards
 
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
The question is, do those $120 tablets have every driver in the mainline kernel or do they need binary blobs?
Of course the same question applies to this 200€ tablet, since even the raspberry pi depends on binary blobs.
That's the central question here.

Originally Posted by luca View Post
That wouldn't be a problem if there were binary blobs available for every new kernel revision, but that's generally not the case and a perfectly functional device cannot be kept up to date.
Even if there were guaranteed binary blobs for every kernel version it would still be a problem because these blobs would still be proprietary.
Seeing this as a problem is the very difference between Open Source and Free Software.
 

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And a problem anyone that has owned a N8x0 knows by heart.
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#46
Relationship with Mer much more explained in http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/o...licensing.html

(BTW, if anyone speculates, I'm not involved with this except in my function as project architect in Mer, let's see where I'll end up
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#47
Spark Linux tablet specs updated, going up for pre-order next week:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/05/s...order-next-we/

I don't know, for this price I expected at least a 10" screen + 1GB ram. How this compares with kindle fire?
 

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#48
CordiaTAB deja-vu...
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Time will tell if it ends the same way...
 
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I'm quite convinced, that Spark will make it into customers hands. My comment was rather about presented specification. Still, it doesn't seem to be "this thing".

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