Re: A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:39:00PM -0500, Joe Nosay wrote: > I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program; > and, that is good. Let's take it one step further. The debian team wants to > build a powerpc laptop. FreeBSD is working on the POWER8 with the PPC team. > The prob

A proposal and a challenge

2015-12-02 Thread Joe Nosay
I know that everyone is familiar with the one laptop per child program; and, that is good. Let's take it one step further. The debian team wants to build a powerpc laptop. FreeBSD is working on the POWER8 with the PPC team. The problem is convincing IBM to publicly open the CPU for a good purpose.