Re: LUG: Tablet support - Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:43:04 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Tablet support

From : "Jeffrey Ryan Horn" <jrhorn@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:43:04 -0400

Hi Alex,

The latest distribution of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, natively supports wacom
and tablet computers. Specifically, I use Kubuntu and it responds well.
I'm actually not sure if Ubuntu (gnome desktop) has the same
functionality, but I imagine it would.

The hardest part of using linux on a tablet is finding good journaling
software. I used jarnal for a bit, as well as a few others suggested over
at ubuntuforums.org. I never found any handwriting recognition software,
so that may be a deal breaker for you.

Of course, if you want a linux tablet with all that stuff taken care of,
you can purchase a fully-supported thinkpad conversion from EmperorLinux.

http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/raven/

I believe these come with a few years of support.

Hope this gets you started!
Jeff

On Tue, July 17, 2007 4:15 pm, ajray@ncsu.[redacted] wrote:
>
> does anyone know of linux support out there for tablet users?
>
> I'd really like to be able to run linux on my computer (as opposed to
> Vista), but I'm having trouble finding a distribution of Linux that will
> handle it.
>
> Thanks in advance for responses,
> Alex Ray
>

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