There’s now an official Ubuntu MATE build for GPD Pocket 3

The GPD Pocket 3 is a fully-featured modular pocket PC and now you can happily run Linux on it with an officially released build of Ubuntu MATE. Something of a tradition for the MATE team who have produced builds for previous versions of the GPD devices.

Here’s some of the work that went into ensuring it works well:

• Enable frame buffer and Xorg display rotation.
• Accelerometer support for automatic screen rotation.
  • Also automatically rotates touch screen and stylus (draw and erase)
• Enable fractional scaling by default
  • Results in an effective resolution of ~1280×800 to make the display panels easily readable.
  • Simple to toggle on/off via the Display Scaler app if you want to restore full resolution.
• Enable audio via the HDaudio legacy driver.
• Suspend is implemented via s2idle
  • A temporary workaround until S3 sleep state is supported.
• Enable scroll wheel emulation while holding down the centre trackpad button.
• Enable Tear-Free rendering by default.
• Enable double size console (tty) font resolution.

One current downside is that the fingerprint reader does not work.

Download from the Ubuntu MATE website. See more about the device on the GPD website.