Trisquel linux on Raspberry Pi 3
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I wanted to know if Trisquel linux could be installed on Raspberry Pi 3 ?
Technically it could, but Trisquel is not built for ARM.
According to what I’ve read, RPi isn’t open hardware, so you should really avoid it. On the contrary OlinuxIno makes open boards — this one seems rather good, is used for the Freedombox project: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware
You can install Debian (free by default) on it.
WOW! I didn't know there was another Open Hardware site! I thought all we had was Crowd Supply! Thanks for sharing this!
according to https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi :
"A binary blob used by the GPU must be present on the SD card for the system to boot."
"Debian armhf will work (with a custom kernel)."
My understanding of this is the fully free armhf version does not work out of the box. You have to include proprietary software to be able to boot the Pi. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Raspbian provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is basically Debain + 2MB huge binary bloob necessary to start + additional non-free software including Oracle Java and Wolfram Mathematica.
The Raspberry Pi is invitingly cheap but in terms of freedom it sadly comes off badly.
Here https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers you can find a rating of some single-board computers concerning freedom.
I'd recommend you the Beaglebone Black. As far as I know you can run this device with only free software. The only downside of this board is the "low" computing power compared to a new Rasperry Pi.
I just found out about the Hi-Five1 an apparently Open Source
Hardware Arduino compatible microprocessor!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1
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Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel linux on Raspberry Pi 3
according to https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi :
"A binary blob used by the GPU must be present on the SD card for the system
to boot."
"Debian armhf will work (with a custom kernel)."
My understanding of this is the fully free armhf version does not work out of
the box. You have to include proprietary software to be able to boot the Pi.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Raspbian provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is basically Debain + 2MB
huge binary bloob necessary to start + additional non-free software including
Oracle Java and Wolfram Mathematica.
The Raspberry Pi is invitingly cheap but in terms of freedom it sadly comes
off badly.
Here https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers you can find a
rating of some single-board computers concerning freedom.
I'd recommend you the Beaglebone Black. As far as I know you can run this
device with only free software. The only downside of this board is the "low"
computing power compared to a new Rasperry Pi.
There is an experimental free boot firmware for the RPI.
Maybe in 5 years it will be usable in freedom, even with 3D graphics support. GCC supports the VC4 but not PowerVR.
I'm not sure about Trisquel, but it might be possible to use Parabola on one. It supports BBB, which uses the same ARMv7 CPU
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