Important: GNUPad & GNUberry Libre

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Archetyp
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Iscritto: 06/15/2017

GNUPad L100

GNUPad L100 Docking station

GNUPad L100 Battery

GNUberry Libre 1 Model A

Why is there no startup company ready to produce such devices as a replacement for our current refurbished ThinkPads and the Raspberry Pi?

happy_gnu
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Iscritto: 08/06/2017

The technical and legal challenges on creating a completely libre device are far way beyond giving it a cute name.

You can support
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Archetyp
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Iscritto: 06/15/2017

Thank you happy_gnu!

Very interesting, I believe TALOS II & EOMA68 is our future.

:-)

Soon.to.be.Free
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Iscritto: 07/03/2016

EDIT: Accidentally posted before I made a correction. See below.

Soon.to.be.Free
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Iscritto: 07/03/2016

There's no real reason to "replace" the Raspberry Pi. The major technical obstacles to freeing it, I believe, have already been surpassed, meaning some fleshing-out work is all that remains: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware. Rather than start from scratch, it would make more economic and environmental sense to simply have this project finished off and then re-use the existing body of knowledge (or even existing products) with this new libre firmware.

Of course, this doesn't cover potential concerns about the lack of commitment to liberty by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Happy_gnu has already addressed these, however.

Archetyp
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Libre Tea Computer Card is the best solution.

An EOMA68-compatible computer card with an Allwinner A20 dual core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of NAND flash pre-installed with the Parabola GNU/Linux-libre operating system.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop