2y ago

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

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

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2y ago

The PineTab-V gets community-supported software build

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Open source processors. What a time to be alive.
- Hasn't ARM always been open source?
  
  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.
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.
That's pretty cool. What's the battery life like on this thing?
- 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.
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.
- Mine is still working. Armbian is great on it, though I still wish I could get hardware video decoding working in-browser. Best I can do right now is GPU OpenGL acceleration, but any site with video maxes out the CPU and kills battery life.
  That all said, I love the keyboard on it.
  
  Armbian was the most promising when I had mine, but still wasn't ready. I just couldn't get into manjaro, but every time I loaded a new OS the screen would die, come back, flciker and a "shadow" around the perimeter of the screen.
- 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.
Does the pinetab v have working WiFi drivers? The arm version doesn't
I think I found my next machine to run Emacs and EXWM

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