Two attempts to bring the ethos of free software to hardware have met an end. The group of folks behind the KDE desktop environment have been trying for a few years to deliver a tablet with wouldn’t rely on proprietary software. More recently they unveiled the Improv Board, a small, cheap computer module designed to ship […]
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Open source Vivaldi tablet and Improv board seem to be dead in the water
Once upon a time a group of developers with the KDE team decided to release a tablet based on open source software. It was announced in 2012 as the Spark, renamed a few months later as the Vivaldi, got a major hardware overhaul a year later, and still hasn’t made it to market. Now it […]
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Improv is a $75 modular, ARM-based computer core (EOMA-68)
Make Play Live is now selling a $75 module with the brains of a computer — and that’s exactly what the Improv is designed to be. You can theoretically slot the card into a laptop dock, tablet dock, or other device to turn it into a fully capable computer. Or you can use it as […]