EmperorLinux has announced the Raven Tablet, the ThinkPad X41 by Lenovo, to the Linux world with a 1.5 GHz Pentium-M, 1.5 GB RAM and a 60 GB hard drive, built-in ethernet and WiFi.
Some of the features include:
* pen/stylus input to screen (in Xorg) * as a mouse pointer * as a pen / stylus * ability to hand-write commands on-screen with stylus (converts handwriting to ascii text in the focus area) * available handwriting recognition suite (trained conversion of handwritten text images to ascii text) * pen has pressure sensitivity in Gimp * screen can be rotated to portrait orientation * special BlueKeys support when Raven X41 is folded into tablet configuration: * scroll Up/Down, Enter, ESC, and Toolbox keys * Toolbox Key (toolbox plugin to "EmpTool" tool suite to access LCD brightness up/down, volume up/down, backlight, wifi kill, etc) * integrated Biometric Fingerprint scanner works in Linux * train your fingerprints, and use them to login (PAM / GDM / login ...) * ACPI hibernate to disk (swsusp) * wireless 802.11 b/g or a/b/g (internal wifi , w/ dual antennas) * BlueKeys function keys support (LCD brightness, Volume, wifi kill, ext VGA, hibernate, ...) * CPU throttling (based on usage environment) * sound, gigabit ethernet, USB, CardBus (PCMCIA) and more.
EmperorLinux provides full hardware support for the Raven X41 Tablet running Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, and SuSE. Full hardware support under all these Linux distributions is made possible by the "empkernel", the custom built Linux kernel for laptops from EmperorLinux. http://www.EmperorLinux.com/kernel/
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