You can buy them from sites like banggood.com / gearbest.com.

They are pretty reliable. But in my honest opinion, That kind of money should just be spent in the Dell Outlet. Get something like the Latitude 7270 / 7470 or the Latitude 7275 (Sort of a surface clone). At least warranties would be easier and you have Dell's support.

Don't even bother with those Chinese tablets. They are passable for media consumption, but absymal for anything else.

Buy something like a refurbished Dell Latitude series instead. Keyword here is you said "long trip'. When you buy something that made a lot of tradeoffs to achieve that price point, you are going to be frustrated.

How about for app development? I got a small Windows 10 Chinese tablet that I want to use for testing Windows 10 UWP apps but don't want to open it (haven't had time to use it yet) if it wouldn't be worth it.

I have a Chuwi. Honestly, from the get go, you will know that its not a development machine.

As for testing apps, If you wish to simulate the user experience on a cheap Atom, this would be the thing for your. Else, you're bound to be frustrated.

Thanks. I misspoke, I meant to that I want to use it as a testing device and not a development device. I don't think I could do development on a 13" laptop let alone a tablet

I'm considering one for media consumption (Netflix, high-bitrate 1080p video) - do any have good battery life?

It will play fine. In my case, this is what I realised.

* I bought it thinking that this would be a cheap Win10 based Netflix / Comic Reader. Windows 10 is not really a touch friendly OS. You will end up booting into Android and installing apps. Even then, there are frequent crashes / Some apps won't work because the Tablet does not meet DRM requirements.

* Netflix on Android only runs in HD with certified devices. Else you're going to be getting streams in 480p max.

* I apologise for the Caps. I got burnt by 2 of these tablets. (My fault, because I was expecting an iPad like experience without paying the price). I'm hoping that I can give you what to expect if you decide to buy one.

There's a site and YouTube channel called techtablets.com, the guy does good (and possibly unbiased) reviews of most of these tablets you should check it out it will answer your question.

techtablets.com is great. In fact, I got my tablet based on his reviews. There is a hidden subtext behind his reviews though. He already knows what he should expect for the price he is paying. Thus, his reviews are based on what all tablets in that price point offers.

I went in thinking that the specs on paper would turn out to be great value for money. That was my biggest mistake.

Yeah that's true. You can say that his reviews are comparisons between devices of similar caliber but you get to see some details that you wouldn't otherwise expect e.g. If a USB port supports display out etc

I am torn between getting that, or waiting for the next generation motherboards (apollo lake).

2 vendors have already made preliminary announcements:

* http://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-157 * https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/J3455M-E/

I think this is RH finally realizing why Ubuntu Server has surpassed them in the cloud. It's because develop & test on the same OS. Its also the reason why CentOS was popular in the first place.

This coupled with faster but unsupported software version updates should put but back on track to compete in the cloud.

CentOS has let you do that for a long time.

The whole point of RH/CentOS is it's the distro for people who specifically do NOT want a lot of churn in software versions.

I install RHEL on production servers because I'm much more confident I can run "yum update" and nothing will break.

>> The whole point of RH/CentOS is it's the distro for people who specifically do NOT want a lot of churn in software versions

With collections they're pretty reasonable at letting you join the churn train if that's what you need.

I'd peg them as a purveyor of more thoughtful implementations. E.g. one example would be docker - rh implemented it from the get go with MAC. I think the others are catching up now, I believe apparmour profiles are present on modern Ubuntu around docker.

    I install RHEL on production
    servers because I'm much
    more confident I can run
    "yum update" and
    nothing will break.

Similar rationale for my using FreeBSD.

Excluding ports, right? Those break pretty often.

Er what? The CentOS 7.2 cloud image was released 3 days after the DVD. Amazon doesn't seem to record when the AMI was uploaded, but previously it happened at the same time as the cloud images were announced.

If you want faster, unsupported software versions for Red Hat ecosystem then use Fedora.

But if you want a stable base system with newer language runtimes or development tools, use Red Hat (or centos) with software collections.

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

Expect it to break a few times a year though.

Nothing you can't fix but I thought you might want to be aware of it up front.

In my experience (I've been using Fedora as my primary desktop for approx 8 years), breakage is more rare than that, like once every few years.

Depends what you mean by break, probably. I've been using Fedora as my primary desktop/home server since it began. I pretty much never see breakage from regular updates. I do expect to see something break whenever I upgrade from one release to another. I'm pleasantly surprised when it doesn't.

Usually it's something like "I need to ediff-merge foo.conf with foo.conf.rpmnew", or "I need to reinstall this dependency of my webapp to the new python site-packages directory", so you wouldn't see this kind of breakage on a clean install.

Anyone checked out pydio? it was formerly called ajaxexplorer. http://pyd.io/

I have it running on my VPS and the built in sync is terribly slow for me. It's really fine as a frontend though.

At least this is a proper money generating business, unlike the useful Whatsapp. I definitely use it a lot, but being acquired for 16B is stretching it...

Man, that is exactly the first thing I did as well. Lets hope they release a 'mono' version soon

There is a monospaced version, scroll down... http://mozilla.github.io/Fira/

According to this page there is one:

- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/...

It looks like it's included in the zip files when you download it at the bottom.

There is already one. And it has a 0 dotted.

Good catch on the dotted zero.

The spacing is weird, I'll give it a shot and see if I like it.

I really don't like the lower case "r" in the monospace font. It looks almost like a small capital I (the serif portion on the upper left is almost equal in size to the right section of the arc).

I like the rest of it, but the r is pretty distracting.

Agreed. The "r" looks heavier weight than the others to me. (Though I can't be sure if I'm only noticing because you mentioned.)

I definitely noticed this independently and came here--Is it normal to mix a couple serif-like characters into an otherwise sans mono font?

Same here. Was amazed by the initial marketing gloss, but let down by the 1366x768 display :(

This problem really echoed with me. The one thing I hate about Python is the pain of compiling it from source.

Unlike startups, we enterprise dudes don't have the liberty of choosing the latest distros with better base Python versions.in some cases,the machines don't even have a compiler installed.

Try running your funky new admin script on these rhel5 boxen is a pain.

I've resorted to compiling with LD_RUN_PATH, -rpath & -r set.

I think this should be included in the python-guide for the sanity of other devops dudes

I have to agree. I had to jump through hoops, and registration was a PITA.

If not for the 'feeding frenzy' I was in, I would have not bought the ebook at that moment.

Edit: The book was worth it, jsut the process of buying it