PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January

Posted by Unknown on Sunday December 2, 2012 @02:20AM from the tablet-for-the-gnu-slash-rest-of-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Quoting liliputing: 'PengPod plans to start shipping 7 and 10 inch tablets with support for Linux as well as Google Android in January. The company, founded by Neal Peacock, has been raising money to help support software development for the tablets — and Peacock just wrote in to let us know the project has surpassed its initial $49,000 fundraising goal. In other words, the campaign will be fully funded and backers that pledged $120 or more should get their tablets starting in January if all goes according to plan.'" And, unlike many ARM SoCs, the kernel for the Allwinner A10 powering it is developed openly.

2 of 69 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

There goes the tablet experience by metalmaster · 2012-12-02 02:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

I love the idea of a dual booting tablet, but it doesnt really strike me as a consumer device. I hope each of the pledged backers really understands what they're getting. It should beat out that $99 walgreens tablet but it's not going to be the iPad killer by any means
1. Re:There goes the tablet experience by citizenr · 2012-12-02 02:53 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It should beat out that $99 walgreens tablet
  no it wont. It has $50 Tablet specs (shitty photoframe TN low resolution screen). 10' one is $30 more expensive than same hardware bought in shop.
  Kernel source is useless when you have no GPU driver and no VPU driver (no h.264 acceleration).
  I really dont understand what is this thing about.
  
  --
  Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.