It seems that almost as soon as registration for pre-ordering the Spark was announced, the initial production capacity was reached and registration was closed. The Spark sure is a hot tablet (if you'll excuse the pun)!

Aaron Seigo, a lead developer of the KDE project and the leader of the Spark project, announced registration for pre-orders on his blog on Thursday 16 February, and had to announce that the initial production capacity had been reached and that registration was closed only a few days later, on Monday the 20th.

Initially, Seigo and his company, MakePlayLive, had planned to service their American orders from Europe where they are based, but due to the phenomenal demand from the Americas they are working on setting up logistics in the US. As for the rest of the world, once Europe and the Americas have been serviced, the rest of us will be dealt with.

If, like me, you were unable to catch the pre-order registration, do not worry. You can still register on the MakePlayLive site, and you will be notified when the next batch of Sparks is being produced.

There has been quite a buzz in the open source community of late, thanks to the announcement of a pure Linux stack tablet by Aaron Seigo, one of the lead developers of KDE. This new tablet is called the Spark, and aims to be completely open source from the hardware up.

As you can imagine, people have been excited by the news, and many are asking when the tablet will be available. While the Spark has not yet gone into production, the good news is that it is now available for pre-order!

At this stage it is not known which countries the Spark will be available in, but from previous blog posts by Seigo indicate that it will likely initially launch in Europe, but then become available in other countries in due course.

The Spark can be pre-ordered from MakePlayLive for a target retail price of €200 (final price will be determined by the region you reside in).