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Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100
SternisheFan sends this quote from Ars:
"It likely won’t be as sleek or fast as a Nexus 7 or Nexus 10, but a new tablet running both Android and Linux is in the works for open source enthusiasts and lovers of low-budget devices. PengPod tablets, made by a company called Peacock Imports, will dual-boot Android 4.0 and a version of Linux with the KDE Plasma Active interface for touch screens. But in order to reserve a tablet for yourself, you'll have to contribute to the company's crowdfunding project on Indiegogo and hope enough money is raised to begin production. 'Our goal is to build a powerful, True Linux Tablet, one free of Google and Android's restrictions, at a reasonable price,' the PengPod IndieGogo page says. 'If you're a Linux fanatic you probably ended up getting an Android phone. Hey, it's Linux right? It'll be open, run all the programs I'm familiar with and let me hack around and have some fun right? Too often, this is not so. That is why we set out to find a way to run real Linux and all the software you really want.'"
Yes. Threads like that are why I switched to OS X. The people on the forum are trying to use the classic Linux excuses and make the user feel stupid and blame him for Linux shortcomings. KDE using over a gig of RAM is insane to me. Remember when Linux was supposed to be lightweight and flexible? Yeah, it probably never was but it definitely isn't now. I used to really believe in Free Software but it has totally failed to make a useful and helpful computer for professionals and casual users. What good having "software freedom" if the software is total shit? Sure, in the server (after having IBM, Redhat and Novell poured cash into it) it's quite decent but the desktop is just a failure and despite Google's best efforts Android ain't all that either.