Hi Bernhard,
Am Freitag, 15. April 2011, 15:56:47 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
There are a number of small endeavours to produce hardware ideal for Free Software. Does anyone have experience with:
Not with these, sorry.
I know somebody who owns a "fit-PC 2" [1], which is really cool in terms of power consumption. It is cool as a device, as well, but I don't know how easy it is to get a free driver running on it (it has one of the few graphics chips that don't come with a free driver by intel :().
The Jetway J8F9 [2] is a really cute device, it doesn't consume a lot of power neither, and it does run with free drivers. But it is really slow --- resulting from its Geode CPU.
The Cirrus7 One [3, sorry: link in German] looks really neat to me. It comes with GNU/Linux preinstalled. Does anyone know whether it runs well with free drivers?
Oh yeah, there are many nice devices running with free software... ...and I am not answering your questions ;)
The thing I'd love to see: A cool low power somewhat embedded GNU/Linux PC with an ARM CPU --- there would be plenty of them on the market already, if people wouldn't always demand proprietary Windows... :/
Regards, micu ================================== [1] http://linux.bigga.de/blog/blog-post/2010/05/15/tiny-fit-pc-2-replacing-old-desktop-pc/ [2] http://linux.bigga.de/blog/blog-post/2009/05/25/using-xorg-geode-driver-on-jetway-j8f9/ [3] http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2011/05/Kleiner-und- leiser-Mini-PC-mit-Ubuntu-Support