The mission
The best Linux tablet doesn't exist – yet
Nobody sells the Linux tablet we actually want. The purpose-built ones run modest silicon behind 60 Hz LCDs, while the best tablet hardware on earth – flagship SoCs, 120 Hz OLEDs, IP68 bodies – ships welded to a single vendor's operating system. The hardware exists. The software exists. They've just never been allowed to meet.
Ports is where they meet. As the Whitehat Hardware Manifesto puts it:
"We believe technology should serve people, not the other way around."
So we take the best factory-unlocked hardware money can buy and build the open-OS path for it: Ubuntu Touch today, mainline Linux next, then the distributions you'd actually daily-drive – with the failure modes mapped before you flash, the one-way doors clearly marked, and every step written for someone doing it for the first time. Open systems over locked doors. Knowledge over dependence. The best Linux tablet isn't going to be handed to us, so we're building it.
Available now
Ports
Ubuntu Touch on the Galaxy Tab S9
Tab S9, S9+, and S9 Ultra (Wi-Fi) · bootloader rev 1 & rev 5 · getting-started guide, build-number decoder, and install pathway.
The roadmap
Where this is going
Ubuntu Touch is the beginning, not the destination. The goal is the full open-OS menu on hardware this good: mainline Linux kernel work first, then the distributions you'd actually daily-drive.
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Follow the build
One email when something real happens – a port ships, a device goes stable, a new OS lands on the roadmap. Nothing else; we don't do lists.
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