ideas for laptop selection
Daniel Pocock
daniel at pocock.pro
Tue May 2 15:23:16 UTC 2017
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
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