Wie lassen sich gescannte Noten als Chormitglied mit einem Linux-Tablet verwenden? Ein Erfahrungsbericht.

Smartphones and tablets are basically little computers with touchscreen displays. But since most ship with mobile operating systems like Android or iPadOS, they're often tightly tied to Google or Apple for support, services, and app stores, among other things. So developer tech4bot decided to set a cheap Android tablet free by turning porting Linux to run on it. The Doogee U10 is a budget tablet that sells for around $80 and ships with Android 14. But tech4bot's open source software lets you install a Debian 12 "Bookworm" image to a microSD card and boot from that instead, allowing you to use it like a full-fledged (if underpowered) Linux PC.

The open_slate is an upcoming tablet with a 12 inch, 2.4K IPS LCD display, a MediaTek Genio 720 processor and support for up to 16GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. But what makes it unlike most tablets on the market is that it's designed to run open source software, has hardware kill switches to help protect your privacy, and some replaceable components including a removable battery and an M.2 2280 slot for user-upgradeable storage.

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After launching a privacy-focused smartphone called the Brax3 a few years ago, Brax Technologies is expanding its hardware lineup with a new tablet called the open_slate. It's a tablet that puts privacy and user choice front and center, with features like hardware kill switches, support for multiple operating systems, and a user-replaceable battery and storage, among other things. Brax…

Linux PC vendor Juno Computers sells laptops, mini PCs, and tablets that come with Linux-based operating systems like Debian or Ubuntu pre-installed. The company launched its first Linux tablet in 2022, and delivered a few new models in the years since then. But the 2026 models could be the biggest updates yet. The new Juno Tab 4 comes in two versions. There's a Juno Tab 4 10.5" LTE with an Intel Core i3-N300 Alder Lake-N processor and a larger WiFi-only model called the Juno Tab 4 13" that comes with an Intel Core Ultra 5 115U Meteor Lake chip.

The PineTab-V is a 10.1 inch tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel IPS LCD display, 8GB of LPDDR4 memory, 128GB of eMMC storage, and a detachable keyboard with backlit keys. What really makes it different from most tablets though is that it's powered by a RISC-V processor rather than an ARM or x86 chip. Pine64 began selling the tablet to developers and early adopters…