While looking for suitable hardware I found this: http://linuxgizmos.com/crowdfunding-a-custom-linux-sbc-the-easy-way/
It looks like one can order custom board if ordering 50 or more units. Maybe one can ask it to be boxed (and maybe open-sourced?). What do you think? On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 18:34 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting ST (2013-08-20 17:38:50) > > I'm not a hardware profi and was looking around to buy a small arm > > computer to run Debian on it. I watched the FreedomBox video from > > DebConf yesterday. Novena project ( > > http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3265 ) was mentioned there with > > significant excitement because its an open hardware project. My > > question is - how is Novena better than the open hardware project > > OlinuXinu ( https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/ ) that is also > > appears on the FreedomBox's TargetedSoftware webpage? Is Olinuxino not > > completely open? Are there some binary blobs? Why to wait for Novena > > if Olinuxino is already there and runs Debian out of the box? > > As Bdale mentioned in the talk, Novena has better technical specs. > > Also, even if OLinuxIno _boards_ are Open Hardware, the Allwinner SoC > used on them is poorly documented, and not yet in mainline Linux tree. > > Might be, however, that other boards also including crypto features > emerge by the time Novena becomes real. > > ...and might be that the FreedomBox Foundation is one of the "partners" > mentioned at recent blog entry about Novena: > http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?tag=novena > > Perhaps someone affiliated with the Foundation would like to share what > they know about this... > > > - Jonas > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
