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[Jason H]

But I got my tablet because it's here now, and the same hardware as the Vivaldi.
Yes, I am aware of the Android HW GPU issue. Fortunately the Mali-400 HW of Vivaldi and my tablet has non-android X11 opensource drivers.






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 From: Lamarque V. Souza <Lamarque.Souza.ext at basyskom.com>
To: active at kde.org 
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: release
 

Em Friday 05 October 2012, Carl Symons escreveu:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 5, 2012 15:41:16 Marco Martin wrote:
> >> shouldn't be that big
> > 
> > ok :)
> > 
> > my next question is: based on our marketing wordsmithing (anding othering
> > wordings ending withing 'ing'ing ;) what will our "3 important messages"
> > be that we flog in our blogs and elsewhere?
> > 
> > shall we start a suggestions list and then pick from them?
> > 
> > here's my first nomination:
> > 
> > * new apps -> reader, file browser, ?
> > 
> > --
> > Aaron J. Seigo
> 
> Performance and stability
> 
> Freedom and power to the people B^)
 
Just to clarify this part to Jason: freedom here also involves having full access to the hardware you buy. You can install Linux in most of tablets out there (as long as the boot loader is not locked), but usually not all the tablet hardware will work because of lack of drivers for 3G modem, wifi, GPU (3D acceleration), HDMI, etc, which exist for Android but Android's drivers are not full compatible with other Linux kernels, so you cannot use their drivers in traditional Linux distributions like Mer, (K)Ubuntu, OpenSuse, etc. Most tablet OEMs do not understand open source yet and we need to convince them to release the source code of the device drivers they use and/or have developed. That is also one the reasons Vivaldi has not been shipped yet. Having a full free tablet is not easy.
 
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