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Just get a Gemini PDA or another retro-smartphone device from Planet Computers.
by Apocryphon 4y ago
Just get a Gemini PDA or another retro-smartphone device from Planet Computers.
- thanatos519 4y agoThe Gemini is amazing except for the bit where I am stuck at Debian Stretch using libhybris for the hardware because of all the Android proprietary binary blobs. It's super awesome, and OpenGL ES works great, but it's not following me into the future. My Sony VGN-P720D was similar: amazing hardware with great Linux support out of the box, and ... the same Linux support 5 years later, because the blobs I got the month after I bought it were the last blobs they ever released.
- pabs3 4y agoWhich blobs does it need? The Panfrost work means that ARM Mali GPUs should be supported in mainline Linux/mesa these days. Looks like mainline Linux has Mediatek MT6797 support (but not Gemini support) and mainline mesa Panfrost supports Mali-T880. So potentially doable.
- int_19h 4y agoI own a Cosmo. The keyboard is great. The software is atrocious, and Linux support can be best described as "it exists", last I tried it. From what I heard, Linux on Gemini is even worse, and there are no expectations for things to improve there. On top of it, heavy users have discovered that the build quality isn't great, either - lots of complaints about broken screen cables etc.