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Linux Based Tablets Are Coming

Posted by timothy on from the drunk-people dept.

CrypticSpawn writes "Read some good news on Diracian; there will be a Linux tablet coming out running Lycoris's Linux distribution, Lycoris Desktop/LX Tablet Edition. What's great is the tablet is the Protege by Toshiba, so you get a laptop and a tablet wrapped up into one. I guess I am a gadget fanatic, I love my Zaurus, now I want this. They even have pictures of it here. Also found another reference of this tablet on PC World, without the pics."

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  1. In the next release? by Leeji · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right now one of the things it is lacking that it really needs is handwritting recognition, which they say will be in the next release.

    Did I tell you I'm just about to submit my perpetual motion machine to manufacturing? Motion will be in the next release, though.

    But seriously... I hope they're talking about the "next release" as in "the version that will go onto the tablet when it ships." A Tablet Pc is just an expensive doodle pad without the handwriting recognition.

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  2. Linux Tablet PC == Good? by aardwolf204 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me just make sure I understand this correctly:

    Windows Tablet PC == Bad
    Linux Tablet PC == Good

    Ok, continue on with the mindless /. ramblings...

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