“System-wise, the current status is that we have a bootable live
image (Balsam Professional) with a touch-friendly shell, a bunch of
apps that can be used. Boot performance is a bit on the slow side
right now (but improving, there are some changes to the boot
process planned), runtime performance is pretty good already, as
you can see in the videos that we’ve posted already. At open-slx we
are working on refining the image in terms of preconfiguration,
performance and so on.“We’re also quite close to making the image installable, so you
can easily install it once (as dualboot on your device, if you
wish) and then keep tracking Plasma Active development just by
updating your packages regularly.”
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