New Braxtech Tablet (or Laptop) with UT on mainline linux kernel

libremax

Named "Open Slate":

Note: about "mainline linux kernel" (or near mainline kernel and anyway recent kernel) for Ubuntu Touch, it's a guess on my part.

stanwood

@libremax Indeed, Ubuntu Touch is cited as a potential operating system available, provided that porting is considered.
To be continued...

kugiigi

To be honest, I think we shouldn't be hoping for this to be coming anytime soon. There are only renders and the SOC is very new. I highly doubt it'll actually be shipping this year. And let's not even talk about a UT port yet
I'm sorry if I'm killing the excitement and joy but in my experience with crowdfunding projects, they're almost never on time, even those that already exists and ready to manufacture.

This is nice though. I hope it'll become a real thing. UT needs a good reference tablet device. I personally want a tablet.

ChromiumOS-Guy

@kugiigi somebody should pick up the pine64 devices up again the whole port family for the rockchip is in disrepair.

libremax

@kugiigi said in New Braxtech Tablet (or Laptop) with UT on mainline linux kernel:

To be honest, I think we shouldn't be hoping for this to be coming anytime soon. There are only renders and the SOC is very new. I highly doubt it'll actually be shipping this year. And let's not even talk about a UT port yet

I didn't mention the projected availability date, but it does exist: "Estimated delivery date is August '26." (for Android version probably)

For the brax3, 8 months passed between the start of the funding campaign and the first deliveries under iodéOS. The first version of UT was released 4 months later, and the first “stable” version, which can be installed via ubports-installer, is not yet available yet after 14 months months since the start.

So I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard a guess: the first "stable" version of the open slate tablet running UT could be available between August 2026 and December 2027.

libremax

Interesting answers here are from Plamen, from Braxtech:

Q: Will there be an easily buildable close-to-mainline Linux kernel?
Will changes be upstreamed to the mainline linux kernel?

A: Yes, to both. We’re getting that promise from MediaTek and the integrator they hired for the linux part.

Q: Will fingerprint support work on linux? How will the camera look? Should we expect the camera to be green and blurry at the start?

A: The mandate is to get everything working, as it will on Android. We will communicate a linux roadmap in due course. One of the main reasons for selecting the g720 by MediaTek (and not a way cheaper alternative such as Rockchip 3588) was the strategic importance for MediaTek to run linux on it - this is their latest high end IoT chip. Most of their customers for the chip will run Linux.
Obviously, the camera won’t beat iPad, but it will not be crap.