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Lycoris Announces Desktop/LX Tablet Edition

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-tublet-pcs dept.

penguinrenegade writes "Lycoris has announced the release of a new Tablet Edition of their popular Desktop/LX Operating System. There are several screenshots in the tour, and it looks like a really polished system, including some of the things that you'd really need in a Tablet, like the virtual keyboard, actually working. It appears according to one page that there are already Tablets in production by some manufacturer, too. So much for Bill Gates and his vision of only Microsoft on a Tablet, eh?"

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  1. Why? by UTaimSRC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because Microsoft created the TabletPC does not mean that it needs Linux as the competition. The TabletPC will fail without Linux's help because there is a very small niche for the product.

    1. Re:Why? by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "because there is a very small niche for the product."

      Small niches can be very successful. Apple is doing just fine thank you very much.

  2. Why is why? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why are you so sure the tablet PC is doomed? It's just a slight evolution of the laptop concept -- and laptops are pretty popular. Sure tablets are overhyped and most of the "features" are useless, but that's true of a lot of products. Doesn't mean the basic idea isn't sound.

    I, for one, am looking forward to the day when I can recline on my couch and surf the web or read an ebook with the same ease I now read a paperback. Yeah, you can do that with a laptop, but it's awkward. You don't always need a keyboard.

  3. Touchscreen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Touchscreens suck for Tablets. I've been using a Toshiba Tablet PC since March and love that the screen is not sensitive to TOUCH, but only activated by the special PEN. That means when I rest my hand on the "page" to write in the journal the screen doesn't erroneously respond to that pressure as it does on those (cheaper) models which are touch sensitive. Also, when I flip my pen around it is recognized as an eraser. That, with the real-time feedback, makes it feel so much like writing on paper that I brush the "eraser shards" after erasing. When I use those other Tablets that are touch sensitive, I'd hate it.

    Please tell me Lycoris' Tablet supports WACOM pads...

  4. The free software myth. by mindstrm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Free software is not about what you think it is about. It's about freedom for the software itself.

    Free software is not about giving away software for free. If you can take free software, and bundle it in such a way that you have an edge, and can make money off it... that's great. Go for it.

    Yes, Lindows did do a lot of work to make linux get out there into people's homes. They have a deal with a MAJOR outlet to sell lindows preloaded on pcs. That sounds good to me.

    It's not the job of everyone who works with open source to "promote open source". Not everyone is a holy crusader.

    Lindows has caused a lot of people to use linux who otherwise wouldn't, becuase of how their products are sold. They abide by the licenses of the software they are given, and found a way to profit from it. That's not something to complain about.. and frankly, all the complaining every time someone makes money off open source while still complying with licenses is what gives open source a bad name.

    Do I think lindows is technically a great feat? Hell no, but I don't see anything wrong with what they are doing. If you release something under GPL, you should not be upset when someone takes it, packages it, and sells it. Your license, after all, permitted it.

    If the authors did not want people to sell or use their products in this manner, the licenses would refect that fact.