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PineTab-V tablet with a RISC-V chip gets community-supported software builds (including KDE Plasma desktop) (liliputing.com)

submitted 2 years ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

Whoa! So RISC-V is already that far? We can have tablets? Nice.

I'm almost in "shut up and take my money" -mode already.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. What's the battery life like on this thing?

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

Without ever having used it, I can say with complete confidence that it’s probably bad. It’s not an optimised consumer level device, it’s a product aimed at enthusiasts and tinkerers who want to implement Linux on a new platform and form factor.

[–] AnotherPerson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember getting a PineBook Pro when it came out. Seemed like a great machine but the screen failed in less than a week. Thankfully they refunded me but it was disappointing.

[–] ardorhb@kbin.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

I still use my Pinebook Pro as daily driver (next to a desktop pc) and I‘m actually quit happy with it. It’s not the most powefull machine but it does it‘s job.

Also I never really experimented with all the special distros. Nowadays I just run plane Debian on it and everything seems fine.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Does the pinetab v have working WiFi drivers? The arm version doesn't

[–] gringo_dingo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think I found my next machine to run Emacs and EXWM

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Open source processors. What a time to be alive.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hasn't ARM always been open source?

[–] obscura_max@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's licensed. RISC-V isn't necessarily open sourced either. It's an open standard, but you can develop your own proprietary designs on it.

[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup!

To my understanding RISC-V is like BSD lisenced not GPL.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think it was MIT, which is basically the same like BSD