I just got a unit from the first batch of PineTab-Vs from Pine64 and I know a lot of people are interested, so here's a quick run through of how it's working out of the box.
Finally a first view of a real RISC-V tablet (or laptop like device). But sad that there is no real OS installed. Debian and Fedora alrdy support RISC-V - shouldn't it be easy to boot one of these two distros with a usb-stick? Or do I have a wrong idea of what this developer tablet is capable of?
Pine64 released this with basically the same hardware, other than the SOC module and some other stuff, as the PineTab 2. The idea was to get it out the door quickly so the hackers could work on it. Progress is moving pretty fast and the best place to keep up is on Pine64's discord server. There is already an experimental build that is booting in to KDE plasma. Normally I'd complain about a company expecting the community to just pick up the work and do it, but Pine64 is pretty good about providing tools, and things like making it easy to get to the low level serial shell. But it will be interesting to see how far we can get in a few months.
@@grantolsoni feel the thing that differs between how pine64 does this vs other companies, is that pine64 makes it abundantly clear that the software is unfinished, makes no unrealistic promises, and prices their hardware accordingly
@@grantolson I think complaining about a company that does exactly what it makes sure to tell any potential customer to expect is misguided. We need these kinds of companies that don't provide the Apple experience, just the hardware for a reasonable price to allow enthusiasts/hackers to storm on. I agree that this riscV version of the tab is right on the edge if it is even right to openly sell to consumers. But i think it's ok because they made it very clear it's a development kit, not a product.
Might be the first one I’ve seen for the RISC-V edition! Thanks for sharing!
Great to see it booting.
Finally a first view of a real RISC-V tablet (or laptop like device). But sad that there is no real OS installed. Debian and Fedora alrdy support RISC-V - shouldn't it be easy to boot one of these two distros with a usb-stick? Or do I have a wrong idea of what this developer tablet is capable of?
Pine64 released this with basically the same hardware, other than the SOC module and some other stuff, as the PineTab 2. The idea was to get it out the door quickly so the hackers could work on it. Progress is moving pretty fast and the best place to keep up is on Pine64's discord server. There is already an experimental build that is booting in to KDE plasma.
Normally I'd complain about a company expecting the community to just pick up the work and do it, but Pine64 is pretty good about providing tools, and things like making it easy to get to the low level serial shell.
But it will be interesting to see how far we can get in a few months.
@@grantolsoni feel the thing that differs between how pine64 does this vs other companies, is that pine64 makes it abundantly clear that the software is unfinished, makes no unrealistic promises, and prices their hardware accordingly
@@grantolson I think complaining about a company that does exactly what it makes sure to tell any potential customer to expect is misguided. We need these kinds of companies that don't provide the Apple experience, just the hardware for a reasonable price to allow enthusiasts/hackers to storm on. I agree that this riscV version of the tab is right on the edge if it is even right to openly sell to consumers. But i think it's ok because they made it very clear it's a development kit, not a product.