There are a number of small endeavours to produce hardware ideal for Free Software. Does anyone have experience with:
http://www.d-cubes.be/ Belgian mini-company selling mini-computer: light and mini
http://open-pc.com/ A community for building an open pc, three sellers, three designs: Open-PC "1", "Micro" and "XS".
http://openpandora.org/index.php?lang=en A handheld with a gaming focus, but basically a mini-pc.
Maybe they need more promotion?
Il giorno ven, 15/04/2011 alle 15.56 +0200, Bernhard Reiter ha scritto:
There are a number of small endeavours to produce hardware ideal for Free Software. Does anyone have experience with:
http://www.d-cubes.be/ Belgian mini-company selling mini-computer: light and mini
interesting... I'm currently looking for a silent and compact mini PC which fully supports GNU/Linux
unfortunately this experience lasted 5 months, they stopped their activities (read the news in homepage)
http://open-pc.com/ A community for building an open pc, three sellers, three designs: Open-PC "1", "Micro" and "XS".
this is still active I just wonder if it really works with *free* drivers... anyone have detailed information about it?
Maybe they need more promotion?
The FSF is replacing this list: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
with a community-driven database: http://www.h-node.com/ http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Directory_Migration
h-node needs more promotion as well.
Cheers, Federico
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:31:43AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
The FSF is replacing this list: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
with a community-driven database: http://www.h-node.com/ http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Directory_Migration
h-node needs more promotion as well.
And they should provide a simple one-step-solution to identify one's PC. Maybe they could use Smolt [0]?
Best wishes Michael
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:31:43AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
interesting... I'm currently looking for a silent and compact mini PC which fully supports GNU/Linux
Maybe this can help you: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors
Good luck!
Greetings,
Guido
Hi Bernhard,
Le vendredi 15 avril 2011 à 15:56 +0200, Bernhard Reiter a écrit :
Does anyone have experience with:
http://www.d-cubes.be/ Belgian mini-company selling mini-computer: light and mini
Yes, we contacted them already. I don't know if we met them yet. They donate an important part of their profit to FSFE.
Best,
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
Hallo,
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:31:03PM +0200, micu wrote:
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 thing I'd love to see: A cool low power somewhat embedded GNU/Linux PC with an ARM CPU
Ähm... Geode ist Dir zu langsam, aber Du willst einen ARM? Passt nicht wirklich zusammen :-)
-antrik-
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:56:47PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
http://open-pc.com/ A community for building an open pc, three sellers, three designs: Open-PC "1", "Micro" and "XS".
The idea sounds kinda interesting; but visiting their site was a major WTF?! experience for me. Supposedly it's "open", yet I'm unable to find any information about who decided what and when; nor any useful information about the final product -- either the hardware or the software.
(After half an hour or so I found some random link to a wiki, which is almost empty (apart from spam), but at least has some information about the software. Still nothing for the hardware.)
http://openpandora.org/index.php?lang=en A handheld with a gaming focus, but basically a mini-pc.
This is a pretty amazing project... But one of the main features they boast is the SGX 3D core, for which no free drivers are available. In view of this, I don't think we can fully endorse it either...
-antrik-