It's been more than a year since KDE developer Aaron Seigo announced plans to build a tablet designed to run open Mer Linux and the KDE Plasma Active environment. The Vivaldi tablet project's hit a few speed bumps since then, but this week the team has a mostly working prototype.
The latest model is based on the EOMA-68 computer module from Rhombus Tech. That means that if and when the tablet ships, you'll be able to remove a single card with the processor, memory and storage and swap in a new card to upgrade the tablet without replacing the screen, display, or other components.
Right now the Rhombus Tech team is working on a card featuring an Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. But Aaeron Seigo says the goal is to use a more powerful dual-core version in the upcoming tablet, which is currently code-named "Flying Squirrel."
It'll probably be an ARM Cortex-A7 chip like the Allwinner A20.
While there's no official launch date or price for the tablet yet, the founder of the Rhombus Tech initiative has posted a video showing Debian 7.0 running on an EOMA-68 card with an Allwinner A10 chip. It's not a super-speedy device, but it's capable of driving basic desktop Linux software including the Midori web browser.
He also hinted that the Flying Squirrel currently sports a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display (the same screen used in the original Amazon Kindle Fire), although the specs could change by the time the tablet is ready to ship.
Other devices that could eventually feature Rhombus Tech's EOMA-68 cards including a handheld gaming console and modular notebook.
Vivaldi "Flying Squirrel" Linux tablet is making progress (still not ready to ship) is a post from: Liliputing
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