ideas for laptop selection

[Daniel Pocock]

On 02/05/17 16:54, Paul Boddie wrote:
> On Tuesday 2. May 2017 15.45.38 Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
>> Here is my suggestion: pinebook
>>
>> https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
> 
> Does that use the same Allwinner SoC as the Olimex laptop...?
> 
> https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/fosdem-and-teres-i-update/
> 
> https://olimex.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/teres-i-do-it-yourself-open-source-
> hardware-and-software-hackers-friendly-laptop-is-complete/
> 
> The situation was apparently changing when I posted a comment on the second 
> article, but mainline, blob-free kernel support was not yet there. Or maybe it 
> was, but the documentation doesn't get updated to reflect the current status:
> 
> http://linux-sunxi.org/A64
> 
> I guess the software is just one thing holding up the Olimex laptop, 
> particularly since they might be a bit more wary of bad publicity around 
> binary blobs and Allwinner's tendency to produce copyright-infringing software 
> to demonstrate their products. So the software has to be done properly and to 
> a standard that most people will accept, which means that the Pine64 software 
> should be closely inspected for licence compliance.
> 
> Paul
> 
> P.S. There are hardware pages on the FSFE Wiki that should be documenting 
> these things.

Is this type of thing duplicated between FSFE, FSF, LibrePlanet and
other wikis?

Regards,

Daniel