ARM support
I really would love to buy and use a BeagleBone Black Board with Trisquel. I know that there isn't any suppport for the ARM architecture right now. Thus, I have three questions:
1.) Is ARM support planned for Trisquel any time in the future?
2.) If yes, is there a planned release date for this support?
3.) Are there any other completely free systems, which could be installed on the BeagleBone Black board?
Thanks a lot!
3. You can run Debian and carefully select just the free bits. Just remember to not recommend it to the general public.
https://gnu.org/distros/optionally-free-not-enough.html
http://jxself.org/debian-doubletalk.shtml
Thank you for those two links.
Well, you just recommended it to the general public. ;-)
However, thank you very much for that tip. Are there any plans for Trisquel ARM support?
I am a member!
Beaglebone Black is not free last time I checked.
Trisquel lead developer has mentioned ARM support during a video speech during the 2013 Libre Planet get together. There must be a copy of it somewhere.
Have you seen this thread? A free board and now a libre port, but not Trisquel.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/olinuxino-free-alternative-raspberry-pi
"Beaglebone Black is not free last time I checked."
According to the FSF it is partially: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
I'm not planning to use the GPU and video decoding.
"Have you seen this thread? [...]"
Yes, but their best product seems to be the following: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MAXI/open-source-hardware
454 Mhz and 64 MB RAM are not really sufficient for web browsing.
The A10 has 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GHz CPU[1], the A13 has similar specs[2].
[1] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/A10-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source-hardware
[2] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/open-source-hardware
450MHz will do just fine with software less sucky. Such software ain't that well known, though, finding and using them requires some dedication and willing to take an extra mile.
I have a 500MHz @ 192MB which will run netsurf / midori (web), sylpheed (mail) and canto (feeds) very happily. Programming C / ncurses / python with geany, pictures with geeqie, calendar with orage. pdf's with xpdf or mupdf, Desktop with dwm, jwm, fluxbox or iceWM works great without all the clutter. It is swappy though, so some kind of external storage (nfs/nbd?) for disk+swap would be handy.
Flash is out of the game, and so is most of the javas****t. One could play flash with vlc / mplayer once the file is local, though I haven't found a good solution yet.
@ssdclickofdeath: Thank you, I just didn't see that. So the best board available should be this one: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-MICRO-4GB/open-source-hardware
@Telstar: Wow, I still would like to be able to use the machine. 500MHz @ 192MB really seems to be a bit... bad. ;-)