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Uhhh...show me a version of Linux you don't have to pay support for that gets 10 years of patches WITHOUT upgrading

Okay

I saw the foldable screen device they were showing recently. My thought was neat proof of concept but there isn't a way in hell I would buy the thing. Thoroughly impractical form factor even if the device happened to work great otherwise. Too big while folded (large air gap) and too fragile to put in a pocket folded which seems to defeat the entire purpose of a phone. It's not really clear to me who would buy the thing or why other than as a toy to play with.

That said I think a device with a cleverly available second display on the back or a rigid display that can rotate into view on the front side has the potential to be really useful if the design is well done. The ZTE Nubia seems to be a promising idea for how to go about it.

Meanwhile Windows 10 not only allows Linux in the same machine it now let's me run pretty much all of my Linux dev tools in Windows, without emulation, side by side my Windows apps in one windowed shell.

And, also Meanwhile...

TFS LIES!

https://liliputing.com/2018/11...

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/20...

BTW, editors and Slashtards, I found these references in 0.5 secs. of Googling.

Nice work, fucktards!

TFS LIES!!!

https://liliputing.com/2018/11...

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/20...

BTW, editors and Slashtards, I found these references in 0.5 secs. of Googling.

Nice work, fucktards!

There are some already, but I like the rockpro64 https://liliputing.com/2018/01...

Correction to the URL. Try here.

Sorry guy, mustook the name. It's called "Lapbook." Chuwi's take on XPS class devices is this thing https://liliputing.com/2017/04...

No laptop user would choose it unless they very literally can't afford anything better

The only "serious" (i.e. non-Atom) 10 inch laptops that I'm aware of are Panasonic's expensive "Let's Note" laptops sold only in the Japanese market. Prices start at $1,200, and I wouldn't be able to buy one with a warranty anyway because I live in the United States, not Japan.

Besides, aren't Chromebooks the current day netbooks?

Not as long as destruction of your Crouton installation is as easy as following the prompts to press Space Enter.

FWIW they advertise a Stream with 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC, and 802.11ac if you care about that. I would not like a toy with everything soldered but why not with you're okay with it. It would be good specs if t were a phone lol.

The one I used was closer to this one but slightly newer I think (dual core 1.0GHz actually) and gray. They do not say too bad things about it.
https://liliputing.com/2012/07...
It's a nightmare to look for their ever changing laptop models, lol.
Not exactly a feather, but perhaps the weight loss from removing the mechanical HDD is noticeable.

An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k

So where are those sub-$100 Pascal-based videocards?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvM5JX1Mk4

This is Intel Atom:
http://liliputing.com/2015/04/...
"Intel says its new chips can play 4K videos at 60 frames per second when theyâ(TM)re encoded at up to 250 Mbps bitrates. 1080p videos can play at up to 240 frames per second."

No need to buy a graphics card at all for 4K playback.

My Asus EeePC laptops had a mechanical latch which simply blocked the camera: http://liliputing.com/wp-conte...
Of course this does not silence the microphone.

Are kindles still locked down against their owner, Apple-style?

If so, then... no thanks. If I buy your device, I expect it to be mine after I pay you for it. If you are going to continue being the owner of the device I just purchased, well... why would I do that, when I could instead buy a different device that'll answer to me, instead of answering to you?

I run a very simple (tomcat hosted) jsp based web page which reads my disk structure and renders a hideous html page which allows you to: 1) Play the movie in the browser (for the kids' iPads mostly, or 2) send a REST call to the Roku to play it on the roku (using a custom "channel" I wrote, which consists of about 5 lines of Roku's proprietary Brightscript.

The Roku channel I wrote can also parse an xml file that my hideous jsp can generate, which will build picture based menus on-screen on the roku. This was so my 4 year-old could find and play whatever the hell they wanted to play. My one design requirement "4 year old can use it"

For the grown-ups, we just have an amazon fire stick (17 dollars on sale) plugged in to the TV. Side-loaded XBMC (now Kodi or something) and pointed it to the same network fileshare that the tomcat server serves up.

My setup is a patchwork, but it works on Android, FireTV, Roku, iPad, and desktop, and it was free, and I have made barely any changes to it beyond adding content for the past 2 years. The biggest downside to all of it is when less techie people come over they always ask "can you set this up at my house?" and my answer is "um, uh, not really." If it were more portable and "standard" it would be better... but it works for me and my family.

This page says they're exclusive to Japan. I don't live in Japan. Is the warranty valid outside Japan?

from the liliputing article:

it’s possible that some existing plugins will never be able to make the transition since they rely on a “permissive” model that allowed for deep integration into the browser and that’s exactly the sort of thing Mozilla is ruling out for future add-ons.

The developer of popular Firefox add-on DownThemAll, for example, says he’ll probably stop developing plugins if Mozilla eliminates support for XUL-based add-ons because the new tools don’t offer the same kind of flexibility as those that are being deprecated.

I want a micro-tablet. I want a cell phone without the phone to hold my shopping list, music, and podcasts. I don't want the phone.

Why doe this not exist?

It does. But most devices include the phone anyway because the cost is trivial and it's not worth it to create the tooling and manufacturing to produce a separate product which is basically the same thing without the phone.

Chromixium is a project to recreate the functionality, look and feel of Google’s Chrome OS on a conventional desktop, GNU/Linux base system. It is based on Ubuntu.

My table has eight cores (MediaTek MT6592), that's twice as good. Also it was $75 and had a 3G modem and 7" LCD (colorfly g708). To give you a sense of how much people are overcharging for a dongle. My tablet is only 1.4 Ghz, but that chip apparently is available as 2.0 GHz if you can deal with the thermal issues.

I think I'll wait for something Tegra X1 based though, that chip screams on GPU performance. And in clamshell or settop the thermals aren't quite as limiting to such a beastly chip. (there is a CUDA dev kit for it, you could prototype your next super computer on a few Tegras, neat!)

There is a market for this kinda thing but as you pointed out, between chromecast and fireTV (in the cheap options side of things) got the area cornered

I think you're better off with a cheap x86 system that you just plug into your TV like a Zotac Zbox pico or a tablet. That way you can run whatever desktop software you like and you get the long term compatibility and upgrades a desktop system offers.

So you need to buy a Google-branded phone to get good support, and all the other Android vendors such?

Google usually only updates their phones for 18 months.

http://liliputing.com/2013/10/...

Apple just released a security update in February for the 3GS that was introduced in June 2009.

They released iOS 7 for the iPhone 4 released in June 2010.

Let me know when Android can even put two windows on the screen.

2012 called and wants its ignorance back.

http://liliputing.com/2013/09/...

Alright there Mister Patronising... Not really Android is it though? When Android for vast majority of devices effectively means stock+tweaks+Google Play, solutions that are only for manufacturers to implement is a bit useless for the rest of us, isn't it?

Let me know when Android can even put two windows on the screen.

2012 called and wants its ignorance back.

http://liliputing.com/2013/09/...

I guess you would agree Phoronix is qualified to install the first beta of a Linux based OS? How about they being unable to boot anything but Windows 8 (.1) on hardware with UEFI after lot of trying?

It was a problem with that specific device's bootloader only reading 32bit EFI. Im not sure what agenda you are trying to serve by attempting to generalize this, it is clearly a very specific problem on a specific device that has already been worked around.

Depends on who that someone is. How about Phoronix ?

Looks more like their problem is they didn't use EFI-compatible bootable image, it's nothing to do with SecureBoot at all, the process is pretty straightforward and documented here.

I would love to have a full featured PC with a 7-8" screen that I can carry with me that I can use with a USB serial port for diagnosing router issues.

A lot of them are made by a company in China called Hiton (sometimes anglicised to Highton) and resold with vendor branding. You can still get a variety of size and spec XP/7/Linux machines from 5 to 11" from them. Googling should bring up a few places to buy them on, or just look in Alibaba.

Asus have also just released the 1015E, which is a faily capable little 10" laptop available with Linux for $199 or Windows for $250.

http://liliputing.com/2013/05/asus-1015e-low-cost-mini-notebook-review.html

but anything by one more like Coby is passed over as the developers reasonably/logically only work on things they own.

Developer Christian Troy has ported an early build of CyanogenMod 10 to run on devices with Allwinner A10 processors, bringing Android 4.1 to dozens of tablets and a few other devices.
The Allwinner A10 processor is an inexpensive ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor that’s proven popular with budget Android device makers. It’s shown up in low cost tablets from Ainol, Eken, Coby, and others, and the Allwinner A10 is also the chip used in the MK802 Mini PC stick and a number of similar PC-on-a-stick devices.

http://liliputing.com/2012/08/cyanogenmod-10-android-4-0-preview-for-allwinner-a10-devices.html

That goal, writ large, is what EOMA68 is about. FYI.

http://liliputing.com/2013/06/eoma-68-pc-on-a-card-goes-dual-core-supports-debian-linux-has-new-accessories-in-the-works.html

But, to take a narrow interpretation of your comment, tablets and cell phones are so monolithic because the big vendors want them to be, so we're forced into their proprietary app store/music store/pay-the-manufacturer-for-flash-memory-at-inflated-prices. It's become a manupulated market segmentation thing. SD card slots have become very rare as a result. But there is no technical reason why this has to be. All the ARM SoCs support SD cards (usually multiple ones). Most of the no-name Chinese tablets actually include microSD slots.

Samsung NC215s is the world's first solar laptop way back in 2011.

It's on Amazon with real reviews and here's a customer unboxing video

Article mentions the NC215s but claims it didn't have a 10 hour battery life while this review says the NC215s did have a 10 hour battery life... not that it really matters if the laptop can run on sunlight.... unless you're visiting the Arctic I suppose

"Boards ship" sounds fine to me, but I'm a hardware guy.

The more serious problem is that EOMA-68 doesn't appear to have anything to with the Vivaldi hardware. I mean, does a tablet with a removable CPU card make any sense whatsoever?

Very sensible choice. Why can't Android do the same?

It can, and has been able to do so for awhile. Modifications for it to do so were refused by the CyanogenMod devs, on the grounds of "Not wanting to piss off google and/or devs." I presume they're not in the main system rather than a 3rd party mod for the same reason.

I've been using Android devices for a few years, and whether or not I can get PDroid on them is one of my suitability criteria now. If iOS really has that function baked-in, then it's an example of something Apple did right that Google whiffed.

I was really tempted to get that one, until I read the rumor that JXD's new model would be a quad-core with IPS screen. If they can do that at a decent price, damn, I'm sold!

The article ( and Slashdot ) somehow links the Netflix app to Encrypted Media Extensions but I don't see where this is confirmed.

It is also likely that Netflix used Native Client. NaCl may also explain why it's only available for certain platforms.

You can buy a Nook and put arch on it.

or perhaps Debian on a kindle fire HD.

I guess I would settle for Bodhi on the Nexus 7

But I have little to no interest in Android (rooted or not) on any of my devices.

I don't quite understand your idealism...Amazon and B&N aren't going to open up their systems because their bottom line depends on DRM content. Samsung can afford to be open with their bootloader because they sell hardware, not content. Amazon doesn't even make any money from kindle sales.

I'm one of the people working on this console.

What do you see as the device's unique selling point over pocket gaming tablets such as the JXD 5100 and 5110? They have the advantage that any Android application is easily ported.

With Android, you have to make sure the device where you run emulators supports physical buttons. Android 4.2 broke Bluetooth gamepads on my Nexus 7, and very few Android devices have an internal gamepad: pretty much the Xperia Play phone, the JXD S5100 and S5110 pocket tablets, and the forthcoming Archos GamePad tablet. On-screen gamepads have their own problems, as any player of fast action games in DroidEmuLite will tell you. This sort of limits the game genres that are viable on Android.

Verdict: Figure out how to import more JXD S5100 tablets.

The $100 price does include one controller

So does the Chinese tablet.

Pictures: http://liliputing.com/2012/12/zealz-gk802-tv-stick-packs-quad-core-freescale-cpu-onto-a-99-pc-on-a-stick.html

http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Unii-GK802-Fresscale-i-MX6-Quad-Dure-Cortex-A9-DDR3-1GB-RAM-8GB-ROM-TV-Box-Dongle----Black-312807.html

http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.php/2012/12/12/quad-core-tv-stick-gk802-finally-stock-in-geekbuying/

Wonder what the Vivante quad core graphics is like, performance wise, compared to its peers.

I think this is probably as close as you are going to get, though it is not specific to this particular machine; YMMV. Essentially, you get an image that is compiled for ARM and stick it on a USB device or SD card and plug it in before booting.

Here you go

It's not Windows though, but I guess you can figure out how to port it across somehow. Do people still use Windows?

Well, it's certainly not light - apparently it's around 900 grams undocked. The battery life is also what you'd expect from a Core i7 device, as opposed to ARM - I can't find the source again, but I've seen figures quoted as coming directly from ASUS putting it at 6 hours of battery life for the tablet by itself, and 10 hours when docked. Which is still pretty decent if you treat it as a laptop doubling as a tablet, I suppose, rather than the other way around.

Note that there are other options from Asus, which are Atom-powered, and hence lighter and last longer. The next one down the line is the 11.6" Vivo Tab, for which they claim 10 hours for the tablet and 19 hours docked. The weight is also in the same ballpark as iPad and Surface; but it's still an Intel device, and you still get the keyboard dock that lets you turn it into a laptop, albeit with reduced features compared to Transformer Book.

Don't know anything about the Archos tablets, but would this help? http://liliputing.com/2011/07/cyanogenmod-7-brings-android-2-3-to-more-archos-tablets.html

Another problem is that the Office suites on iPad/Android are kind of limited.

If they're "limited" for MS Office, at least they exist -- the most I've found for handling OpenOffice Writer files is a half-finished viewer written by a student a couple of years ago.

Yeah, when my mom brought me her Android tablet and wanted me to find an app to wiew and edit Office docs my first thought was that somebody must have ported a trimmed down version of Libre Office to Android but... no such luck. You'll be glad to know Libre Office is being ported to Android, no joy for iOS users like me though

:-(

http://liliputing.com/2012/07/libreoffice-coming-to-android-heres-what-it-looks-like-so-far.html

Difference is, Apple has a lot of money to throw around for advertising/marketing. Doesn't mean they have better product.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Look around the budget end of the processor/computer market and there's some incredibly useful bits of gear. Allwinner is making a mint from having the A10 in a huge variety of devices, from USB-sized computers to development boards like the Rhombus. If you Google Allwinner, Rockchip or Mediatek you'll see thousands of sub-$100 devices with >GHz processors, more RAM than a desktop from 5 years ago and more imaginative form-factors than will ever exist in the Apple monoculture.

Having all this innovation out of Apple's radar means best-of-breed versions will be more likely to gain competitive advantage and prosper.

Rhombus Tech may well fail, but if it does it'll be because it's competing with better or cheaper devices like the $49 Cubieboard , not because it was sued into oblivion by an aggressive, predatory monopolist wannabe.

The CPU is an Allwinner A10, designed and built in China and selling for about $7. It's an impressive piece of technology.

That board, though, looks like the guts of a tablet or notebook, not a development board. There are a number of development boards available at various price points. For $70 you can get an A10 in a box with connectors, suitable for entertainment applications.

Yeah I know hes Korean but it sounds like something that he would claim. Plus the allwinner a10 is priced at more than double the Pi.

http://liliputing.com/2012/05/74-pc-on-a-stick-features-allwinner-a10-cpu-android-4-0.html

http://liliputing.com/2012/07/mini-x-tv-box-runs-android-linux-for-under-100.html

You can supposedly run ICS but that won't help with the RAM of course.

Was done in January and again in February:
http://liliputing.com/2012/02/blackberry-playbook-price-drops-to-199-permanently.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/247202/rim_selling_playbook_tablets_for_300_each.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/rim-chops-all-playbook-prices-to-299/article4085706/
http://www.berryreview.com/2012/01/29/shop-blackberry-confusingly-returns-playbook-prices-to-199-16gb-299-64gb/

Yay slashdot!

Now what WOULD BE interesting is a cluster of NUCs with Ivy Bridge Core i3s

This is not TFA, but it's the closest I could find (and it contains practical information, rather than "reporting"): http://liliputing.com/2012/06/how-to-run-ubuntu-linux-on-the-mk802-74-pc-on-a-stick.html

This is not TFA, but it's the closest I could find: http://liliputing.com/2012/06/how-to-run-ubuntu-linux-on-the-mk802-74-pc-on-a-stick.html