Fully free-as-in-freedom laptop
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Hi, Eoma68 seems to be the first FULLY FREE-AS-IN-FREEDOM laptop to be available, wish I could buy that :( I live in Egypt, this thing will cost it's price multiply by 18, not to mention the shipping price.
The idea is good, but I would wait for some more powerful one. An A20 is the same as my banana pro and I can tell you it is not so fast, even just using the command line.
I read that they are planning octa cores and similar.
On 10/10/17 21:30, name at domain wrote:
> The idea is good, but I would wait for some more powerful one.
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> I read that they are planning octa cores and similar.
Latest computer card luke has been working on:
RK3288 Quad-core 1.8ghz, 4GB Ram, 32GB Flash:
*Base Info: http://rhombus-tech.net/rock_chips/rk3288/
*Progress: http://rhombus-tech.net/rock_chips/rk3288/news/
*Campaign
Update:https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/prototype-progress?utm_source=EOMA68+Supporters&utm_campaign=7bde4d48f5-UPDATE_EOMA68_2016_12_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e30e1da06-7bde4d48f5-112334465
Nexell EOMA68-S5P6818 Octa-Core 2GB Ram (I think):
http://rhombus-tech.net/nexell/s5p6818/
http://rhombus-tech.net/nexell/s5p6818/news/
a mailing List post:
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2016-August/011771.html
PS reading in the FSF website: "The AllWinner Axx and R8 platforms come in many boards such as the A13-OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Gooseberry, Hackberry and CHIP.
While there is free 2D acceleration for Xorg, the GPU and the some features of the video encoding/decoding (VPU) hardware are unusable in the free world, so these jobs must be done on the CPU. In particular, the VPU cannot encode videos and can only decode videos in a few MPEG formats."
It appears that no hardware support for some functionalities. I expect the same for other arm based chips.
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