On 1 March 2011 13:53, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:16:41PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:49:38AM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: >>> >>> On 1 March 2011 08:05, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Speaking about embedded targets, what's the idea about Android > >>> > smartphones? Dalvik, native applications, preferably? Some ssh and > >>> > apt-get >>> > would be sure nice. >>> >>> The target for the Freedom Box is a plug device. These have 800Mhz/1.2Ghz >>> ARM processors and 512MB of RAM and at least 512MB >> >> Yes, you're describing a low-end Android phone here. > > No, plug devices are not phones. > > >>> storage. While I'm sure freedom could be achieved with an embedded device >>> and for some use cases would be a preferable platform that isn't one the >>> stated goals of this project. >> >> The only problem I see is Android specifics, which won't play nice with >> the Debian toolchain. > > If I am not mistaken, the topic of this mailinglist is the _Debian_ > FreedomBox project. Not the Google FreedomBox project or whatever else. > > Hardware is Plug devices and software is existing packaged Debian! > > I encourage anyone to work on whatever hardware and software that fancy > their interest - but please treat such as separate from this project. > > I do not mean to say that you cannot call your project "Freedom Box" (but > possibly Eben has an opinion on your using that term he coined), just that I > strongly fear that discussing all sorts of freedom-related projects together > here on a single mailinglist does more harm than good.
I think Eben did mention phones at one point, but the concern was that it could be stolen. > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJNbOxJAAoJECx8MUbBoAEhtQsP/1juWwZGq2tFmWIiGyr9cHp+ > Avlkkr5y+yuPWJeDQtCN4dQQy09A2o5apnUH+pq7JPZGj8jdyX/CRyMpj3AieE76 > iZDyWiszR04eW9td/agMQLK0hoaKY3SjbZlUYjlLNT9oKYBG7gP3tJvNbO3aCPeE > fktlrp9j8FaARWBC79aTAdqUAZ0xklW3eHY6dKhdpy5iEjUQB7uhfZA1QGbWkyuf > DunLzofacP0wtLKyVjs9wcyiIinUUof1RZAELYDy0bqPHhCOXFS3yhr8ikxK3ACj > 8NBIbaizuB8SH1qANVKlMPTASp6nq/rlJO2U6SnafGqzn8GwveV8qRMAdNwvweKs > SQEqXfSG5LW9FxW0L53v5RPhf1yxXqno8Qj+PCwJsI70c0CaV/J6WoPe41V9Y3W2 > 7jgyrunZPPe34Mi+fLXtXGkScZfUZ+vTa8IevbvP1Z0mKsmoIF3NSJfHJLrj8XnV > o1YvmQt7c5RwRqHELeX/ixkWhBGZ1TAfRMCkie1rJ6g0T4D5pQsvl7X5KZKKmeTc > Pwa3uQCw50Izhj2d+NlgFggCuYt5uBbtwAI8EwFpJQHchHjaf0Z8bT3wx2Lrm3M4 > 8N69iek4edC77O3R9STMA3KM2UV9V+6SnQ267qmi6qgylB0gcZDxUiucdf1KK2DJ > Hhxc8+0f4tRBeC8RLJ3i > =nfsN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
