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Since it's Intel SoC it's already quite good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated form the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Since it's Intel SoC it's with Intel GPU is already quite a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated form the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated form from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

UPDATE:

According to @Stskeeps, Jolla won't be using Intel Mesa / KMS driver and stock kernel for the tablet. They'll use Android closed blobs from Intel with libhybris (which implies Android kernel as well). The reason for that is supposedly not sufficient insufficient performance offered by the Mesa /KMS / KMS Intel driver. He didn't provide specific details on what exactly the shortcomings of the open Intel driver are, except saying that "Mesa / KMS driver is in its infancy". Any additional details about this mater are welcome.

But besides the point, if hardware would allow it, community can at least try producing version with open drivers and stock kernel without libhybris to compare performance. With time Intel open driver will improve more and more, so at some point it should hopefully offer enough performance.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

UPDATE:

According to @Stskeeps, Jolla won't be using Intel Mesa / KMS driver and stock kernel for the tablet. They'll use Android closed blobs from Intel with libhybris (which implies Android kernel as well). The reason for that is supposedly insufficient performance offered by the Mesa / KMS Intel driver. He didn't provide specific details on what exactly the shortcomings of the open Intel driver are, except saying that "Mesa / KMS driver is in its infancy". Any additional details about this mater are welcome.

But besides the point, if hardware would allow it, community can at least try producing version with open drivers and stock kernel without libhybris to compare performance. With time Intel open driver will improve more and more, so at some point it should hopefully offer enough performance.

Intel SoC with Intel GPU is already a good basis, but there are still a lot of components which can be affected - accelerometer, touch screen, WiFi and etc. Please use hardware components which have open drivers (may be except for firmware which is common in WiFi and etc. but is isolated from the driver) to enable running a fully open glibc Linux stack on the tablet without dependencies on Android closed blobs.

UPDATE:

According to @Stskeeps, Jolla won't be using Intel Mesa / KMS driver and stock kernel for the tablet. They'll use Android closed blobs from Intel with libhybris (which implies Android kernel as well). The reason for that is supposedly insufficient performance offered by the Mesa / KMS Intel driver. He didn't provide specific details on what exactly the shortcomings of the open Intel driver are, except saying that "Mesa / KMS driver is in its infancy". Any additional details about this mater are welcome.

But besides the point, if hardware would allow it, community can at least try producing version with open drivers and stock kernel without libhybris to compare performance. With time Intel open driver will improve more and more, so at some point it should hopefully offer enough performance.