SlateKit Base OS Released For The Nexus 7 Tablet
SlateKit Base has been released for the Google Nexus 7 (2013) tablet. SlateKit Base is a basic Linux OS with just having Qt5 running off a frame-buffer. SlateKit Base is very simply designed and within the Qt5 environment is designed primarily for use with QtWebKit-based Slate web-browser.
The SlateKit developers have written in this morning to share that SlateKit is working now as a drop-in replacement for the Android UI stack and can be used for making a custom tablet UI using just Qt/QML, JavaScript, and the Chromium-based code. SlateKit Base has now been ported to run on last year's Google Nexus 7 tablet as long as it's rooted with ADB shell access and is running Android 4.4.2.
SlateKit Base consists right now of an Ubuntu 14.04-based minimal root file-system, Qt 5.2.1, Oxide 1.0, libhybris for graphics support, and the hwcomposer QPA from Mer.
Those interested in more information on SlateKit can read today's announcement.
The SlateKit developers have written in this morning to share that SlateKit is working now as a drop-in replacement for the Android UI stack and can be used for making a custom tablet UI using just Qt/QML, JavaScript, and the Chromium-based code. SlateKit Base has now been ported to run on last year's Google Nexus 7 tablet as long as it's rooted with ADB shell access and is running Android 4.4.2.
SlateKit Base consists right now of an Ubuntu 14.04-based minimal root file-system, Qt 5.2.1, Oxide 1.0, libhybris for graphics support, and the hwcomposer QPA from Mer.
Those interested in more information on SlateKit can read today's announcement.
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