Volla Tablet will ship with Android, but supports Ubuntu Touch multi-boot (crowdfunding) (liliputing.com)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Awesome to see more first party Linux support, especially in a tablet form factor.

It's slightly disappointing to see a Mediatek SOC though, they've always had worse support for custom ROMs and kernels. Probably due to the cost comparable of Qualcomm chips.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ubuntu Touch suggests that this will use Halium most likely, which is good for features, but ... it's not mainline.

Although: Thanks to Chromebooks, there are now a few Mediatek SoCs with okay mainline support. But while the Helio G99 seems quite similar to the Kompanio 520 at first glance, they are quite different, sadly.

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